Clicking a button with Ruby Mechanize

Question

I have a particularly difficult form that I am trying to click the search button and can\'t seem to do it. Here is the code for the form from the page source:

Answer 1

button = form.button_with(value: 'Search')
form.click_button(button)

Answer 2

It is not a link, it is a button. What you need to do is look for the form (for example, with form_with) and then look for the ImageButton and submit it.

Answer 3

I struggled with this too, especially since my form had multiple buttons.

There are multiple ways to submit a form (with many using a 'form_with' block), but this helped me:

# get the form
form = agent.page.form_with(:name => "my-form")
# get the button you want from the form
button = form.button_with(:value => "Search")
# submit the form using that button
agent.submit(form, button)

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Also, make sure you upgrade to the latest mechanize. I was using mechanize 1.x, which was giving me "undefined method" errors for the code above.