# Rerun an action if you refresh?

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rerun-an-action-if-you-refresh/122045>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [December 4, 2007, 6:32am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rerun-an-action-if-you-refresh/122045 "2007-12-04T06:32:26Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![pood](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/3bc359/32.png) [@pood](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/pood)\
**Post date:** [December 4, 2007, 6:32am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rerun-an-action-if-you-refresh/122045/1 "2007-12-04T06:32:26Z")

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So i’m using the Scrubyt library to scrape some data off of google.

The first time you run the action, it runs fine, but if you refresh, it  
would give me errors.

How do I set it up so if I refreshed, it would rerun the action/method?

(sorry really noob question! I’m starting on the Agile Dev with rails  
right now, but would like to get this thing working)

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**Author:** ![pood](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/3bc359/32.png) [@pood](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/pood)\
**Post date:** [December 4, 2007, 10:30pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rerun-an-action-if-you-refresh/122045/2 "2007-12-04T22:30:30Z")

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On Dec 3, 2007 11:32 PM, Feng T. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)  
wrote:

> So i’m using the Scrubyt library to scrape some data off of google.

Why not get a Google API account and stop violating their terms of  
service?

> ./google.pl ‘rubyonrails nashville’ 5

[http://destiney.com/](http://destiney.com/)  
[http://destiney.com/blog/seo-techniques](http://destiney.com/blog/seo-techniques)  
[http://ruby.meetup.com/110/](http://ruby.meetup.com/110/)  
[http://ruby.meetup.com/110/members/](http://ruby.meetup.com/110/members/)  
[http://ruby.meetup.com/110/members/4767207/](http://ruby.meetup.com/110/members/4767207/)

Tada… and no scraping required.

–  
Greg D.  
[http://destiney.com/](http://destiney.com/)
