I'm using watir-webdriver to do my GUI smoke tests, and one area I'd like to test out is redirecting from a dynamic url
Is it possible to save the url to a file, then load it for use?
What I'm thinking of in pseudo code:
#browser.goto 'google.com'
#browser.url.save
in another test
#browser.load url
continue testing....
Is there a way to do this?
To write a string to a file you can just do that:
File.open('path/to/yourfile', 'w') { |file| file.write(#browser.url) }
You can use it in the other test like this:
File.open('path/to/yourfile', "rb") { |file| #browser.goto(file.read) }
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I have an XML file, and before I process it I need to make sure that a certain element exists and is not blank.
Here is the code I have:
CSV.open("#{csv_dir}/products.csv","w",{:force_quotes => true}) do |out|
out << headers
Dir.glob("#{xml_dir}/*.xml").each do |xml_file|
gdsn_doc = GDSNDoc.new(xml_file)
logger.info("Processing xml file #{xml_file}")
:x
#desc_exists = #gdsn_doc.xpath("//productData/description")
if !#desc_exists.empty?
row = []
headers.each do |col|
row << product[col]
end
out << row
end
end
end
The following code is not working to find the "description" element and to check whether it is blank or not:
#desc_exists = #gdsn_doc.xpath("//productData/description")
if !#desc_exists.empty?
Here is a sample of the XML file:
<productData>
<description>Chocolate biscuits </description>
<productData>
This is how I have defined the class and Nokogiri:
class GDSNDoc
def initialize(xml_file)
#doc = File.open(xml_file) {|f| Nokogiri::XML(f)}
#doc.remove_namespaces!
The code had to be moved up to an earlier stage, where Nokogiri was initialised. It doesn't get runtime errors, but it does let XML files with blank descriptions get through and it shouldn't.
class GDSNDoc
def initialize(xml_file)
#doc = File.open(xml_file) {|f| Nokogiri::XML(f)}
#doc.remove_namespaces!
desc_exists = #doc.xpath("//productData/descriptions")
if !desc_exists.empty?
You are creating your instance like this:
gdsn_doc = GDSNDoc.new(xml_file)
then use it like this:
#desc_exists = #gdsn_doc.xpath("//productData/description")
#gdsn_doc and gdsn_doc are two different things in Ruby - try just using the version without the #:
#desc_exists = gdsn_doc.xpath("//productData/description")
The basic test is to use:
require 'nokogiri'
doc = Nokogiri::XML(<<EOT)
<productData>
<description>Chocolate biscuits </description>
<productData>
EOT
# using XPath selectors...
doc.xpath('//productData/description').to_html # => "<description>Chocolate biscuits </description>"
doc.xpath('//description').to_html # => "<description>Chocolate biscuits </description>"
xpath works fine when the document is parsed correctly.
I get an error "undefined method 'xpath' for nil:NilClass (NoMethodError)
Usually this means you didn't parse the document correctly. In your case it's because you're not using the right variable:
gdsn_doc = GDSNDoc.new(xml_file)
...
#desc_exists = #gdsn_doc.xpath("//productData/description")
Note that gdsn_doc is not the same as #gdsn_doc. The later doesn't appear to have been initialized.
#doc = File.open(xml_file) {|f| Nokogiri::XML(f)}
While that should work, it's idiomatic to write it as:
#doc = Nokogiri::XML(File.read(xml_file))
File.open(...) do ... end is preferred if you're processing inside the block and want Ruby to automatically close the file. That isn't necessary when you're simply reading then passing the content to something else for processing, hence the use of File.read(...) which slurps the file. (Slurping isn't necessary a good practice because it can have scalability problems, but for reasonable sized XML/HTML it's OK because it's easier to use DOM-based parsing than SAX.)
If Nokogiri doesn't raise an exception it was able to parse the content, however that still doesn't mean the content was valid. It's a good idea to check
#doc.errors
to see whether Nokogiri/libXML had to do some fix-ups on the content just to be able to parse it. Fixing the markup can change the DOM from what you expect, making it impossible to find a tag based on your assumptions for the selector. You could use xmllint or one of the XML validators to check, but Nokogiri will still have to be happy.
Nokogiri includes a command-line version nokogiri that accepts a URL to the document you want to parse:
nokogiri http://example.com
It'll open IRB with the content loaded and ready for you to poke at it. It's very convenient when debugging and testing. It's also a decent way to make sure the content actually exists if you're dealing with HTML containing DHTML that loads parts of the page dynamically.
I am trying to scrape a website and store data in XML using Mechanize and Nokogiri. I didn't set up a Rails project and I am only using Ruby and IRB.
I wrote this method:
def mechanize_club
agent = Mechanize.new
agent.get("http://www.rechercheclub.applipub-fft.fr/rechercheclub/")
form = agent.page.forms.first
form.field_with(:name => 'codeLigue').options[0].select
form.submit
page2 = agent.get('http://www.rechercheclub.applipub-fft.fr/rechercheclub/club.do?codeClub=01670001&millesime=2015')
body = page2.body
html_body = Nokogiri::HTML(body)
codeclub = html_body.search('.form').children("tr:first").children("th:first").to_i
#codeclubs << codeclub
filepath = '/davidgeismar/Documents/codeclubs.xml'
builder = Nokogiri::XML::Builder.new(encoding: 'UTF-8') do |xml|
xml.root {
xml.codeclubs {
#codeclubss.each do |c|
xml.codeclub {
xml.code_ c.code
}
end
}
}
end
puts builder.to_xml
end
My first problem is that I don't know how to test my code.
I call ruby webscraper.rb in my console, the file is treated I think, but it doesn't create an XML file in the specified path.
Then, more specifically I am quite sure this code is wrong as I didn't get a chance to test it.
Basically what I am trying to do is to submit a form several times:
agent = Mechanize.new
agent.get("http://www.rechercheclub.applipub-fft.fr/rechercheclub/")
form = agent.page.forms.first
form.field_with(:name => 'codeLigue').options[0].select
form.submit
I think this code is ok, but I dont want it to only select options[0], I want it to select an option, then scrape all the data I need, then go back to page, then select options[1]... until there are no more options (an iteration I guess).
the file is treated I think, but it doesnt create an xml file in the specified path.
There is nothing in your code that creates a file. You print some output, but don't do anything to open or write a file.
Perhaps you should read the IO and File documentation and review how you are using your filepath variable?
The second problem is that you don't call your method anywhere. Though it's defined and Ruby will see it and parse the method, it has no idea what you want to do with it unless you invoke the method:
def mechanize_club
...
end
mechanize_club()
Is there a way of accessing this dialog box to get the file name or to save this file somewhere so i can access it later. I am using Ruby mechanize to navigate through the website to get to this screen.
There is no dialog with mechanize. You submit the form, that returns a Mechanize::File object, and you can then save that like so:
file = form.submit
File.open('myfile','w'){|f| f << file.body}
I would do it this way.
Use nokogiri to open the page:
#doc = Nokogiri::HTML(open(url))
go through the doc page and find that link for download.
then you can use something link this:
require 'net/http'
Net::HTTP.start('theserver.com') { |http|
resp = http.get('/xx/the_file_to_downlaod.csv')
open('the_downlaod.csv', 'wb') { |file|
file.write(resp.body)
}
}
I'm trying to call resources (images, for example.) from my website to avoid constant updates. Thus far, I've tried just using this:
#sprite.bitmap = Bitmap.new("http://www.minscandboo.com/minscgame/001-Title01.jpg")
But, this just gives "File not found error". What is the correct method for achieving this?
Try using Net::HTTP to get a local file first:
require 'net/http'
Net::HTTP.start("minscandboo.com") { |http|
resp = http.get("/miscgame/001-Title01.jpg")
open("local-game-image.jpg", "wb") { |file|
file.write(resp.body)
}
}
# ...
#sprite.bitmap = Bitmap.new("local-game-image.jpg")
I want to Extract the Members Home sites links from a site.
Looks like this
<a href="http://www.ptop.se" target="_blank">
i tested with it this site
http://www.rubular.com/
<a href="(.*?)" target="_blank">
Shall output http://www.ptop.se,
Here comes the code
require 'open-uri'
url = "http://itproffs.se/forumv2/showprofile.aspx?memid=2683"
open(url) { |page| content = page.read()
links = content.scan(/<a href="(.*?)" target="_blank">/)
links.each {|link| puts #{link}
}
}
if you run this, it dont works. why not?
I would suggest that you use one of the good ruby HTML/XML parsing libraries e.g. Hpricot or Nokogiri.
If you need to log in on the site you might be interested in a library like WWW::Mechanize.
Code example:
require "open-uri"
require "hpricot"
require "nokogiri"
url = "http://itproffs.se/forumv2"
# Using Hpricot
doc = Hpricot(open(url))
doc.search("//a[#target='_blank']").each { |user| puts "found #{user.inner_html}" }
# Using Nokogiri
doc = Nokogiri::HTML(open(url))
doc.xpath("//a[#target='_blank']").each { |user| puts "found #{user.text}" }
Several issues with your code
I don't know what you mean by using
{link}. But if you want to append a '#' character to the link make sure
you wrap that with quotes. ie
"#{link}"
String.scan accepts a block. Use it
to loop through the matches.
The page you are trying to access
does not return any links that the
regex would match anyway.
Here's something that would work:
require 'open-uri'
url = "http://itproffs.se/forumv2/"
open(url) do |page|
content = page.read()
content.scan(/<a href="(.*?)" target="_blank">/) do |match|
match.each { |link| puts link}
end
end
There're better ways to do it, I am sure. But this should work.
Hope it helps