Comments on: Taking snapshots of web pages with Ruby http://www.bencurtis.com/2008/05/taking-snapshots-of-web-pages-with-ruby/ Speculations on Web Development by Benjamin Curtis Fri, 27 Aug 2010 13:20:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: net-reaper.com » Screenshots With Ruby http://www.bencurtis.com/2008/05/taking-snapshots-of-web-pages-with-ruby/comment-page-1/#comment-1503 net-reaper.com » Screenshots With Ruby Wed, 11 Jun 2008 07:12:23 +0000 http://www.bencurtis.com/?p=128#comment-1503 [...] Taking snapshots of web pages with Ruby [...] [...] Taking snapshots of web pages with Ruby [...]

]]> By: links for 2008-05-23 « Brent Sordyl’s Blog http://www.bencurtis.com/2008/05/taking-snapshots-of-web-pages-with-ruby/comment-page-1/#comment-1495 links for 2008-05-23 « Brent Sordyl’s Blog Fri, 23 May 2008 14:34:45 +0000 http://www.bencurtis.com/?p=128#comment-1495 [...] Taking screenshots of web pages with Ruby using webkit on OSX, and the OSX box wouldn’t be in the same datacenter as the servers running the web application. I ended up using Drb to send the screenshot requests to the shooter, which then used Net::HTTP to upload them back to the web application (tags: ruby screenshots) [...] [...] Taking screenshots of web pages with Ruby using webkit on OSX, and the OSX box wouldn’t be in the same datacenter as the servers running the web application. I ended up using Drb to send the screenshot requests to the shooter, which then used Net::HTTP to upload them back to the web application (tags: ruby screenshots) [...]

]]> By: Adam http://www.bencurtis.com/2008/05/taking-snapshots-of-web-pages-with-ruby/comment-page-1/#comment-1494 Adam Fri, 23 May 2008 03:51:57 +0000 http://www.bencurtis.com/?p=128#comment-1494 Excellent job. We're still using a modified webkit2png.py, wrapped in a ruby script... but I'm now inclined to integrate your work and get rid of Python all together. One thing to note is that your Snapper class will (usually) fail on URLs like http://www.cnn.com - as will webkit2png. The "Shooter" class you referenced doesn't seem to suffer the same affliction. @succeeded comes back as true, but bitmap isn't properly set... and then bitmap.representationUsingType_properties(...) will fail. I'll see if I can determine why. Thanks again. Excellent job. We’re still using a modified webkit2png.py, wrapped in a ruby script… but I’m now inclined to integrate your work and get rid of Python all together.

One thing to note is that your Snapper class will (usually) fail on URLs like http://www.cnn.com – as will webkit2png. The “Shooter” class you referenced doesn’t seem to suffer the same affliction.

@succeeded comes back as true, but bitmap isn’t properly set… and then bitmap.representationUsingType_properties(…) will fail.

I’ll see if I can determine why.

Thanks again.

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