local file support about wombat

[fwolfst]

I have the same issue. In principle it should work using the "file://" protocol with mechanize or creating a Mechanize page or file by hand and setting it via page(https://github.com/felipecsl/wombat/wiki) . However in practise this did not work for me. I really would like to see that work.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7586627/read-a-local-html-file-with-mechanize lists a FakeWeb workaround (another could be a dead simple proxy server), but I'd really like to see this working in wombat directly.

[fwolfst]

I would really prefer to use the page mechanism but have no time looking into why mechanize fails there.

For prototyping I now use webmock like this:

require 'webmock'
include WebMock::API

WebMock.enable!
stub_request(:get, "www.example.com").to_return(body: File.read("page.html"))

result = Wombat.crawl do
  base_url "http://www.example.com"
  path "/"
  # ...
end

[KrassCodes]

Thanks @fwolfst! Your approach with webmock worked for me.