Hi Josal, did you figured out how to do it? I have the same problem :( On Monday, December 20, 2010 8:11:16 AM UTC-2, Josal wrote: > > Hi, guys. > > I want to scrap an HTML site which is using javascript to generate the > contents. So, I can't use mechanize gem or similar ones. I've tried > rdom and taka with johnson, but still some problems (I could give you > more details). The best and easiest option I have at the moment is to > use watir (or selenium or celerity for jruby). I've selected watir, > it's simple, the watir gem or even the watir-webdriver gem. I like > them. But I have two problems: > > - I want to deploy the app in heroku but I get the error: "Could not > find Firefox binary (os=linux)". > - I don't know if it's possible to access to the watir logic without > the need of the browser binary (and without open it in background). > > I currently have an answer here: > > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3597118/can-you-deploy-watir-on-heroku-to-generate-html-snapshots-if-so-how, > > > but I just wanted to confirm the options I have. > > I write a watir-webdriver example, working well in local, to ilustrate > the simple process (in this case html is not dynamically generated, of > course, it's only an example): > > require "rubygems" > require "watir-webdriver" > require "watir-webdriver/extensions/wait" > > browser = Watir::Browser.new :firefox > browser.goto "http://google.com"; > browser.text_field(:name, 'q').set "watir-webdriver" > browser.button(:name, 'btnG').click > > Maybe the only option I have is to use EC2, but it's a pitty because I > only need to scrap javascript-generated HTML and I want to keep on > using heroku, I love it!!! > > What do you think is the best gem for me to do it on heroku? Or > there's no option and I have to use EC2 just to open a browser, losing > the heroku goodness? > > Thanks in advance
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