Having trouble using wombat for dashing about wombat

[felipecsl]

I need more information in order to help you.
What is dashing?
Can you post the ruby code for the wombat scraper you wrote?

[shushiej]

Hi,
Dashing is a sinatra based framework in which you create a dashboard for
display on monitors. :
http://shopify.github.io/dashing/

I wanted to use the wombat gem in order to gather information from a
website and display it on a dashboard.

require 'wombat'

Wombat.crawl do
base_url "http://www.github.com"
path "/"

headline xpath: "//h1"
subheading css: "p.subheading"

what_is({ css: ".teaser h3" }, :list)

search css: '.search'
features css: '.features'
blog css: '.blog'

SCHEDULER.every '10s' do
send_event('wombat_test', text: search)
end
end

I just used what you provided me in the example page just to try and test
it out.
SCHEDULER.every '10s' do
send_event('wombat_test', text: search)
end

This bit of code is responsible for sending the information to the actual
widget, but other than that the code is similar. I understand it will be
difficult without knowing that the code does, sorry about that.

On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 7:33 PM, Felipe Lima [email protected]:

I need more information in order to help you.
What is dashing?
Can you post the ruby code for the wombat scraper you wrote?

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[felipecsl]

You cannot use that block inside the crawler DSL:

  SCHEDULER.every '10s' do
    send_event('wombat_test', text: search)
  end

Wombat will try to parse that and it won't understand, so it will break your crawler.
Just remove that or do it ouside the crawl block

[shushiej]

Awesome,
Thanks a lot,
Cheers
Joshi

On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 6:48 PM, Felipe Lima [email protected]:

You cannot use that block inside the crawler DSL:

SCHEDULER.every '10s' do
send_event('wombat_test', text: search)
end

Wombat will try to parse that and it won't understand, so it will break
your crawler.
Just remove that or do it ouside the crawl block

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