Archive for the ‘Mechanize’ Category

Invitations galore!

Leveraging the data a user can provide is sometimes very important. This information, however small can be very useful when you want to publicize your product. And when it comes in orders of 10^3, its all the more reason that it should not be neglected Yes, I am talking of contact books & friend lists [...]

How to effectively serialize a WWW::Mechanize object

Last 3 days, I was almost pulling apart my hair, trying to figure out how can I serialize a WWW::Mechanize object to the database. The problem started surfacing when I was trying to store a Mechanize instance into the session & oddly enough Rails was throwing the “We’re sorry, but something went wrong” error at [...]