Installing scRUBYt! on Ubuntu Linux
Posted: March 10th, 2009 | Author: xanda | Filed under: IT Related | Tags: howto, install, ruby, scrubyt, setup, ubuntu | 5 Comments »scRUBYt! is a simple but powerful web scraping toolkit written in Ruby. 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 straight from Firebug.
Here are some tips on how to make scRUBYt! works on Ubuntu Linux :
Update your packages list
sudo apt-get update |
Now install build-essential and dependencies
sudo apt-get install build-essential ruby-full rubygems libxml-ruby libxslt1.1 libxslt1-dev libxslt-ruby libxml2 libxml2-dev |
By using gem, install scRUBYt!’s dependencies
sudo gem install rack rubyforge rake hoe sinatra nokogiri user-choices xml-simple s4t-utils builder commonwatir activesupport hpricot mechanize firewatir |
Finally, install scrubyt
sudo gem install scrubyt |
Enjoy! 😀