mechanize & field name for search passed as string

[Edouard Dantes]

Hi,

I am writing a method to perform a similar to the below mentionned
google search but i want it to accept the field's name for the search
entry as a string.

In the following example from the Mechanize docs I would expect it to be
search.send('q') instead of search.q but I get this error

/scrapingGoogle.rb:14: syntax error, unexpected '=', expecting kEND
search.send('q') = 'Hello world'.

Thanks for your comments

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a = WWW::Mechanize.new { |agent|
agent.user_agent_alias = 'Mac Safari'
}

a.get('http://google.com/') do |page|
search_result = page.form_withname => 'f') do |search|
search.q = 'Hello world'
end.submit

search_result.links.each do |link|
puts link.text
end
end

 

[Sandor Szücs]

I am writing a method to perform a similar to the below mentionned
google search but i want it to accept the field's name for the search
entry as a string.

In the following example from the Mechanize docs I would expect it =20
to be
search.send('q') instead of search.q but I get this error

In the example the method which is called is not q(). It's q=3D(), so
if you want so send() then use the right method.

./scrapingGoogle.rb:14: syntax error, unexpected '=3D', expecting kEND
search.send('q') =3D 'Hello world'.

search.send('q=3D', 'Hello World') or by symbol
search.sendq=3D, 'Hello World')

regards, Sandor Sz=FCcs
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