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Well, working on one of the projects, I came over the Scrubyt. It wasn't something very new to me, as we played with mashups for a while at Atomkeep and Everytalks. But I really loved the execution piece. It's simple. It's Ruby. It's Web scrapping bundle of tools.

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Well, only theoretically though. It never worked for me.

I've tried to run the sample code:

white@iwhite:~> cat scr.rb
require 'rubygems'
require 'scrubyt'
google_data = Scrubyt::Extractor.define do
   #Perform the action(s)
   fetch 'http://www.google.com/ncr'
   fill_textfield 'q', 'ruby'
   submit
   #Construct the wrapper
   link "Ruby Programming Language" do
   url "href", :type => :attribute
   end
   next_page "Next", :limit => 2
end
puts google_data.to_xml

And, guess what, it doesn't run.

white@iwhite:~> ruby scr.rb
/Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/scrubyt-0.4.06/lib/scrubyt/core/navigation/agents/mechanize.rb:178:in `fill_textfield': undefined method `[]=' for nil:NilClass (NoMethodError)
   from /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/scrubyt-0.4.06/lib/scrubyt/core/navigation/navigation_actions.rb:27:in `eval'
   from /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/scrubyt-0.4.06/lib/scrubyt/core/navigation/agents/mechanize.rb:178:in `fill_textfield'
   from /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/scrubyt-0.4.06/lib/scrubyt/core/navigation/navigation_actions.rb:27:in `fill_textfield'
   from scr.rb:8
   from /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/scrubyt-0.4.06/lib/scrubyt/core/shared/extractor.rb:75:in `instance_eval'
   from /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/scrubyt-0.4.06/lib/scrubyt/core/shared/extractor.rb:75:in `initialize'
   from /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/scrubyt-0.4.06/lib/scrubyt/core/shared/extractor.rb:32:in `new'
   from /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/scrubyt-0.4.06/lib/scrubyt/core/shared/extractor.rb:32:in `define'
   from scr.rb:4

I've found several error reports similar to this one, but none was answered and even discussed. Any ideas?

P.S. Well, yes, I tried different codes, but while it eats up the fetch, it never works with submit.

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