scRUBYt!

5 Responses to “More feedback required”

1. Curt Hibbs Says:
   February 7th, 2007 at 10:13 am

   I think what you have done is fantastic and will save me a lot of work when I get around to my project. But that may be several months away, so I won’t be sending you feedback any time soon. Perhaps other people are in a similar situation: they appreciate your work but they can’t try it immediately (hopefully, they’ll get to it sooner tham me :-).

   Anyway, I realize you’d like feedback as soon as possible, but you’ll probably get it just by being a little bit patient.

2. admin Says:
   February 7th, 2007 at 10:29 am

   Curt, thanks for your comment! I really appreciate it!

   If everything works out as intended, in several months when scRUBYt! will be actual for you, probably you will face a totally different program. There are tons of heaps of goodies in store!

   As for my impatience, you are probably right (or at least I hope so :-). People are already communicating, I got some bug reports and feature requests and other questions as well.

   Thanks for the encouragement!

3. Zsoltik@ Says:
   February 8th, 2007 at 5:02 am

   Hi I just heard of it and wanted to play with it (idea: creating rss feeds for feedless sites), but currently I’m behind a corporate proxy, and although ‘open-uri’ works without any setting ($http_proxy is set in my .profile), scrubyt always dies with e.g.:

   require ’scrubyt’
   => true
   googledata = Scrubyt::Extractor.define do
   ?> fetch ‘http://www.google.com/ncr’
   filltextfield ‘q’, ‘ruby’
   submit
   result ‘Ruby Programming Language’
   end
   [ACTION] fetching document: http://www.google.com/ncr
   Errno::ECONNREFUSED: Connection refused - connect(2)
   from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:560:in initialize'
from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:560:inopen’
   from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:560:in connect'
from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/timeout.rb:48:intimeout’
   from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/timeout.rb:76:in timeout'
from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:560:inconnect’
   from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:553:in do_start'
from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:542:instart’
   from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mechanize-0.6.4/lib/mechanize.rb:352:in fetch_page'
from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mechanize-0.6.4/lib/mechanize.rb:143:inget’
   from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/scrubyt-0.2.0/lib/scrubyt/extractor.rb:136:in fetch'
from (irb):4
from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/scrubyt-0.2.0/lib/scrubyt/extractor.rb:30:inclass_eval’
   from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/scrubyt-0.2.0/lib/scrubyt/extractor.rb:30:in `define’
   from (irb):3

4. Jesse Says:
   February 10th, 2007 at 7:25 pm

   I am currently developing a realty site and in my quest to construct a listing aggregator I stumbled upon Ruby and scRubyt. I am new at this but I am very eager to learn about content scraping and being able to distribute the aggregated data. Keep up the good work and I will be following along!

5. flodi Says:
   February 13th, 2007 at 12:38 am

   Great Work !!!
   Thank You !!!
   can’t await playing..

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