How to submit a form with Mechanize in Ruby?

Question

When I run this code:

require 'mechanize'
require 'logger'
require 'nokogiri'
require 'open-uri'

agent = Mechanize.new
agent.log = Logger.new "mech.log"
agent.user_agent_alias = 'Mac Safari'
agent.verify_mode = OpenSSL::SSL::VERIFY_NONE
page = agent.get('https://sarathi.nic.in:8443/nrportal/sarathi/HomePage.jsp')
page = agent.page.links.find{|i| i.text == "Status of Licence"}.click
page.form(:name=>"dlform").field_with(:name=>"dlform:DLNumber").value="TN4020120005045"
page.submit

I get this error:

NoMethodError: undefined method `submit' for #<Mechanize::Page:0x8e644cc>

How can I solve this?

just chain the submit with the previous line as page.form(:name=>"dlform").field_with(:name=>"dlform:DLNumber").value="TN4020120005045".submit — Sam
– Sam, Commented May 10, 2016 at 11:36
@Stefan: My bad, haven't touched mechanize for a while now. Could you then break it into separate calls as form = page.form(:name=>"dlform"); form.field_with(:name=>"dlform:DLNumber").value="TN4020120‌005045"; form.submit ? — Sam
– Sam, Commented May 10, 2016 at 14:45
@Sam that looks good, although I don't have Mechanize installed to test it. Maybe you should post that as an answer? — Stefan
– Stefan, Commented May 10, 2016 at 16:32

Sam · Accepted Answer · 2016-05-12 09:31:21Z

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@sudhagar, you should submit the form rather than the page. Also break it into separate calls for a cleaner code, as:

...
form = page.form(:name=>"dlform")
form.field_with(:name=>"dlform:DLNumber").value="TN4020120‌005045"
form.submit 
...

answered May 12, 2016 at 9:31

Sam

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