phantom_menace

A real headless "browser." It uses phantomjs and provides an API like a real browser does. Much like poltergeist but decoupled from capybara.

At the heart of phantom-menace is a run loop inside the phantomjs script that makes it synchronous.

It is perfect for scraping or doing any browser related tasks.

Install

gem install phantom_menace

Getting Started

You have to run the phantomjs server first. This server accepts JSON commands.

phantomjs bin/phantom_menace.coffee

You can then run a quick example:

require "phantom_menace"

browser = PhantomMenace::Browser.new
browser.goto "http://facebook.com"
links = browser.find_all_links
links.each do |link|
  link.attributes["href"]
end

Running The Example

When the server is running, run the example by doing.

bundle exec ruby examples/simple.rb

Running The Tests

Unfortunately, we still don't have an automated test suite to run the different services.

We have to run three things.

1. The phantom_menace binary

phantomjs bin/phantom_menace.coffee

2. The sinatra test server - This serves the files needed for the tests instead of hitting third party sites. This ensures that we can run the tests without internet.

bundle exec ruby ./spec/test_server/server.rb

3. Finally we can run the specs

bundle exec rake spec