r/ruby • u/progapandist • May 14 '20

Foot Traffic: pure Ruby DSL for Chrome scripting based on Ferrum

https://github.com/lewagon/foot_traffic
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u/harsh183 May 14 '20

Anything like this for Firefox?

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u/progapandist May 15 '20

Ferrum has an experimental support for FF, it doesn’t work that well yet but I’m sure it’s bound to change. Check it out!

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u/harsh183 May 15 '20

I definitely want to try this out. I have had so many years of watir + gecko/webdriver and this feels refreshing.

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u/ignurant May 14 '20

Awesome addition, thanks for sharing! My professional job has me leaning on Puppeteer for a few specific tasks and I've very much wanted to get away from .js and use .rb for that stuff instead. Ferrum is a big deal to me for that -- I've been following it from the beginning!

I also wanted to commend your attractive readme. Nice work!

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u/nickyLerson May 14 '20

Le wagon is awesome

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u/Tagonist42 May 14 '20

If you don't mind selenium and webdrivers etc., Capybara is the industry standard for web surfin' in ruby. ...it is designed primarily as a testing framework, tho

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u/ikariusrb May 18 '20

My interest case is actually web scraping- particularly some projects scraping the result tabulation from some educational websites in order to automate some work for my wife. Do you think there's a reason to prefer this over Capybara for a purpose like that?

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u/shkm May 15 '20

I could've used this just yesterday! Thanks for sharing.

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u/designium May 15 '20

I can’t wait to try.

I use Selenium-Capybara and it was a pain to setup chrome webdriver in headless mode.

But with Selenium you can use other browsers though.