Monthly Archives: November 2011

Automating web site interactions with Selenium

Posted on November 27, 2011 by David Sulc

Dannon currently has a “promotion” called Cups of Hope where you can enter codes into their web page to donate money to breast cancer research. Entering data repeatedly gets old real fast, so I figured this would be a great … Continue reading →

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Selecting an option from dropdown form fields with Mechanize

Posted on November 20, 2011 by David Sulc

Mechanize works great for uploading data through forms: it has great support for manipulating text fields, check boxes, and so on. Selecting the appropriate option from a dropdown is slightly more roundabout.

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Uploading data using Mechanize

Posted on November 13, 2011 by David Sulc

In this post, I’ll briefly describe a Mechanize script I wrote to update data in a web application. We’ll see how to navigate using Mechanize, and finding HTML elements with XPath. The goal was simple: open a CSV file containing … Continue reading →

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Posting forms with AJAX on checkbox toggle

Posted on November 6, 2011 by David Sulc

In a recent Rails 3.1 project, I wanted to have some values updated via AJAX when a checkbox value is checked or unchecked. As I was unable to find anything on the subject online, I figured I would document it … Continue reading →

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