On Dec 11 2008, 8:43 ¨Âí¬ ðå®®®Àòõâùòáéì÷áùó®ãïí ÷òïôåº
> Hello all,
>
> After more than a year, I'd like to announce a new release of scRUBYt! -
> so "scRUBYt!".is_vaporware? == false now!
>
> ==========
> scRUBwhat?
> ==========
>
> scRUBYt! is a (hopefully) easy to use, yet powerful Web scraping framework
> based on Hpricot, mechanize and/or FireWatir. It's purpose is to free you
> from the drudgery of web page crawling, looking up HTML tags, attributes,
> XPaths, form names and other typical low-level web scraping stuff by
> figuring these out from your examples copy'n'pasted from the Web page or
> Firebug.
>
> ===============
> In this release
> ===============
>
> Finally it is possible to use FireWatir as the agent for navigation,
> enabling AJAX/more robust scraping via Firefox.
> Another big news is that the RubyInline, ParseTree and Ruby2Ruby
> dependency was dropped since we couldn't solve this problem for win32 for
> one year.
> Of course a lot of bugs were fixed as well!
>
> =========
> CHANGELOG
> =========
>
> - [NEW] possibility to use FireWatir as the agent for scraping (credit:
> Glenn Gillen)
> - [FIX] navigation doesn't crash if a 404/500 is returned (credit: Glen
> Gillen)
> - [NEW] navigation action: click_by_xpath to click arbitrary elements
> - [MOD] dropped dependencies: RubyInline, ParseTree, Ruby2Ruby (hooray for
> win32 users)
> - [NEW] scraping through frames (e.g. google analytics)
> - [MOD] exporting temporarily doesn't work - for now, generated XPaths are
> printed to the screen
> - [MOD] possibility to wait after clicking link/filling textfield (to be
> able to scrape inserted AJAX stuff)
> - [NEW] possibility to fetch from a string, by specifying nil as the url
> and the html string with the :html option
> - [FIX] firewatir slowness (credit: jak4)
> - [FIX] lot of bugfixes and stability fixes
>
> ===========
> What's next
> ===========
>
> The biggest news is that scRUBYt! is going to be rewritten from scratch -
> the work has already been started by Glenn Gillen. scRUBYt! has grown too
> big for our taste, so we decided to start anew, aiming for 100% rSpec
> coverage, refactored code, speed/performance optimization and leaving
> cruft behind. So scRUBYt! 0.4.1, the last one based on the original
> scRUBYt! will be supported until the new, rewritten one (0.5.0) comes out
> and takes it's place.
>
> We are working on a public scraper repository
> (http://github.com/scrubber/scrubyt_examples/tree/master) where you can
> post your scRUBYt! snippets and check out what are the others doing.
>
> And there are other interesting stuff in the pipeline as well - stay tuned!
>
> Cheers,
> Glenn && Peter
>
> ___http://scrubyt.orghttp://www.rubypond.com(Glenn)http://www.rubyrailways.com(Peter)

I tried to update this gem from 0.4.06 to 0.4.11 but it doesn't seem
to see it, even when I use the --source URL option. Have others
experienced problems in updating too?

I tried

$ gem update scrubty --source 'http://rubyforge.org/projects/scrubty'

and it gave me the error message

Updating installed gems
ERROR: While executing gem ... (Zlib::GzipFile::Error)
    not in gzip format