Google login with mechanize on ruby - ruby

Question

I'm trying to get to google play developer console using ruby. But first I have to login. I'm trying like this:
def try_post(url, body = {}, headers = {})
unless #agent #This just creates a new mechanize instance
setup
end
puts 'Logging in'
# Hardcoded for testing purposes
#agent.get 'https://accounts.google.com/ServiceLogin?service=androiddeveloper&passive=1209600&continue=https://play.google.com/apps/publish/%23&followup=https://play.google.com/apps/publish/#identifier'
form = #agent.page.forms.find {|f| f.form_node['id'] == "gaia_loginform"}
unless form
raise 'No login form'
end
form.field_with(:id => "Email").value = #config.email
form.click_button
form = #agent.page.forms.find {|f| f.form_node['id'] == "gaia_loginform"}
unless form
raise 'No login form'
end
form.field_with(:name => "Passwd").value = #config.password
form.click_button
if #agent.page.uri.host != "play.google.com"
STDERR.puts "login failed? : uri = " + #agent.page.uri.to_s
raise 'Google login failed'
end
# #agent.post(url, body)
end
However this fails spectacularly. I tried a few other ways (trying to populate Passwd-hidden, finding field by id and so on) but no luck. I think that the password does not get entered since when I try to puts #agent.page.body after the final click_button I see enter password text somewhere in HTML.
What am I doing wrong and how can I fix it?

Answer 1

I've been digging around a bit more and found out that it's not that simple and I could not login with mechanize in any way.
So I ended up with using watir which was fairly simple and straightforward. Here's an example:
browser.goto LOGIN_URL
browser.text_field(:id, 'Email').set #config.email
browser.button(:id, 'next').click
browser.text_field(:id, 'Passwd').wait_until_present
browser.text_field(:id, 'Passwd').set #config.password
browser.button(:id, 'signIn').click
# Here I wait until an element on my target page is visible and then continue
browser.link(:href, '#SOMETHING').wait_until_present
Hope it helps.