server side HTTP Client (Browser)

rubyonrails-talk
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Hi,

Is there anything on in RoR or Ruby that can be used as a server side HTTP Client. Something like HTTP Unit and jsdom from NodeJS.

I'm trying to log into some custom site and scrap the data from them. It would be a plus if the client also support javascript.

Thanks.

Julian

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That’s really out of scope of RoR.

But there are some other gems in Ruby that could help you out.

httpclient: http://raa.ruby-lang.org/project/httpclient/ Nokogiri: http://nokogiri.org/ Mechanize: http://mechanize.rubyforge.org/mechanize/