Automated Form Filling [Off Topic(ish)]

Hi All,

I need to post data from my rails app to an external web form I do not
have
any control over. There is no public API, so I was wondering if anyone
had
had a similar problem, and was it possible to to utilize Selenium in
production in order to automate the form filling - similar to tagging a
cuke scenario with a @javascript tag in order to automate page
interaction.

I will start looking into Selenium this weekend, but was wondering if
anyone had any ideas that might point me in one or other direction.

Thanks

Paul Hollyer

On Wednesday, February 5, 2014 2:26:45 PM UTC, paul h wrote:

Hi All,

I need to post data from my rails app to an external web form I do not
have any control over. There is no public API, so I was wondering if anyone
had had a similar problem, and was it possible to to utilize Selenium in
production in order to automate the form filling - similar to tagging a
cuke scenario with a @javascript tag in order to automate page interaction.

I don’t think you want to use selenium - unless you actually want
something
to be launching browser instances and so on (and then you end up having
to
install an X server etc. on your production machines)

Have you looked at the mechanize gem? I’ve used it in the past to fill
in
forms as part of a load testing script.

Fred

I will start looking into Selenium this weekend, but was wondering if

On Wednesday, February 5, 2014 4:46:54 PM UTC, Frederick C. wrote:

production in order to automate the form filling - similar to tagging a
cuke scenario with a @javascript tag in order to automate page interaction.

I don’t think you want to use selenium - unless you actually want
something to be launching browser instances and so on (and then you end up
having to install an X server etc. on your production machines)

Have you looked at the mechanize gem? I’ve used it in the past to fill in
forms as part of a load testing script.

Hi Fred,

I will look into the mechanize gem today.

Thank you very much for the pointer.

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