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On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 1:42 AM, Eric Christopherson <
echristopherson / gmail.com> wrote:

> > The only headless browser supporting JS I know about is HTMLUnit
> > (written in Java). I remember having seen some libraries providing Ruby
> > interfaces for it.
>
> Yeah, I looked a little at that. Apparently you can use it from within
> Selenium and Capybara, and probably others.
>
> > If you don't need JS mechanize etc are alternatives.
>
> I just discovered I really don't need JS in this case, so I will try
> mechanize. I'd still like to know the best route to go in the future
> when I do need JS though.
>

There's a non-Ruby headless browser with JavaScript I recently discovered
called PhantomJS: http://www.phantomjs.org/

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