I’ve been trying to get a couple of web automation tools going today
and having a hard time. Seems like everything I try is outdated and
won’t run on my environment. Mechanize seemed like a good one but it
doesn’t want to run:
D:/Ruby193/lib/ruby/1.9.1/rubygems/custom_require.rb:36:in require': 126: The specified module could not be found. - D:/Ruby193/lib/ruby/ gems/1.9.1/gems/unf_ext-0.0.3/lib/unf_ext.so (LoadError) from D:/Ruby193/lib/ruby/1.9.1/rubygems/custom_require.rb:36:inrequire’
from D:/Ruby193/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/unf-0.0.3/lib/unf.rb:4:in
`<top (required)>’
I’ve tried a few things to fix this, but I can’t get mechanize to see
the unf_ext gem. Makes me think that it’s a bit outdated.
What web automation framework would you recommend?
I’ve tried a few things to fix this, but I can’t get mechanize to see
the unf_ext gem. Makes me think that it’s a bit outdated.
Well the latest (preview) version of mechanise is from only a week ago
so I wouldn’t call it unmaintained. It looks like the native extension
in unf_ext didn’t compile properly - I’d try installing it again,
paying close attention to any warnings it might throw up (and make
sure you have the required toolchain to build ruby extensions)
I tried that already. I did it again with Verbose and didn’t see
anything suspicious except:
generating unf_ext-i386-mingw32.def
compiling unf.cc
cc1plus.exe: warning: command line option “-Wdeclaration-after-
statement” is valid for C/ObjC but not for C++
cc1plus.exe: warning: command line option “-Wimplicit-function-
declaration” is valid for C/ObjC but not for C++
linking shared-object unf_ext.so
So that’s a maybe. Other than that, it looks like it installed fine.
I’ve put an issue up on the github for mechanize. In the meantime I’m
using Nokogiri for reading the page, since I don’t have to do any
interaction with it.