Form Filler

Ruby
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Is there an equivalent in Ruby to the Perl modules which can “fill out
an html/http form”?

Given a hash, I’d like to either get the query string to append to the
URL for GET’s, or the POST contents to append for POST’s, as if the
hash was the form[field] = value. The routine should handle the url
encoding and the like.

Any luck?
(If not, anyone up for a quick few lines of Ruby ninjahood?)

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On Tue, 14 Feb 2006 [email protected] wrote:

Is there an equivalent in Ruby to the Perl modules which can “fill out
an html/http form”?

Given a hash, I’d like to either get the query string to append to the
URL for GET’s, or the POST contents to append for POST’s, as if the
hash was the form[field] = value. The routine should handle the url
encoding and the like.

Any luck?
(If not, anyone up for a quick few lines of Ruby ninjahood?)

harp:~ > cat a.rb
require “cgi”

class ::Hash
def query() map{|k,v| [CGI::escape(k), CGI::escape(v)].join
“=”}.join “&” end
end

query = { “foo” => “< > &”, “bar” => “http://b/a space” }

puts query.query

harp:~ > ruby a.rb
foo=%3C+%3E+%26&bar=http%3A%2F%2Fb%2Fa+space

hth.

-a

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puts query.query

harp:~ > ruby a.rb
foo=%3C+%3E+%26&bar=http%3A%2F%2Fb%2Fa+space

6 minutes from post to solution - is that a record?

Kev

4

DÅ?a Utorok 14 Február 2006 05:19 Kev J. napísal:

puts query.query

harp:~ > ruby a.rb
foo=%3C+%3E+%26&bar=http%3A%2F%2Fb%2Fa+space

6 minutes from post to solution - is that a record?

Kev

Ara’s time machine is almost as good as Guido’s time machine, it seems.

Oh, and someone apparently hacked up a Ruby WWW::Mechanize which is
supposed
to do this.

David V.

5

Excellent, most appreciated.

Forgive my RFC ignorance, but is the same string appended to the URL
for GETs and sent as the bod for POST’s? Or is there a difference in
the encoding somehow?

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On Tue, 14 Feb 2006, Kev J. wrote:

6 minutes from post to solution - is that a record?

i think i got one in under 2 before… :wink:

-a

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On Wed, 15 Feb 2006 [email protected] wrote:

Excellent, most appreciated.

Forgive my RFC ignorance, but is the same string appended to the URL
for GETs and sent as the bod for POST’s? Or is there a difference in
the encoding somehow?

it certainly is different. google around for more info. you’ll need to
use
something like http-access2 for posting form data. check out my
rubyforge
script (on rubyforge no less) for a pretty complete example of posting
including file uploads and redirects.

regards.

-a