Scrubyt Web Scraping Script Installation

RyanEgeland - 29 Mar 2009

The installation of scrubyt is contorted in that it relies upon specific versions for dependencies. The following is known to work for Ubuntu 8.04.

Install Ubuntu Packages

aptitude install build-essential ruby-full rubygems libxml-ruby libxslt1.1 libxslt1-dev libxslt-ruby libxml2 libxml2-dev

Install Gem Packages

gem install rack rubyforge rake hoe sinatra nokogiri user-choices xml-simple s4t-utils builder commonwatir activesupport firewatir hpricot mechanize

gem uninstall hpricot mechanize

gem install hpricot -v=0.6.164

gem install mechanize -v=0.8.5

Resulting Gem Packages

The following are the resulting packages shown by gem list.

• activesupport (2.3.2)
• builder (2.1.2)
• commonwatir (1.6.2)
• firewatir (1.6.2)
• hoe (1.11.0)
• hpricot (0.6.164)
• mechanize (0.8.5)
• nokogiri (1.2.3)
• rack (0.9.1)
• rake (0.8.4)
• rubyforge (1.0.3)
• s4t-utils (1.0.4)
• scrubyt (0.4.06)
• sinatra (0.9.1.1)
• user-choices (1.1.6)
• xml-simple (1.0.12)