Sunscraper ========== Sunscraper is a gem for prerendering pages with hashbang URLs like `http://whatever.com/#!/page`. It works by loading content in the embedded web browser and waiting for a JavaScript method to be called. HTML = %{

} Sunscraper.scrape_html(HTML).include?('It works!') # => true See also [documentation][]. [documentation]: http://rdoc.info/gems/sunscraper/Sunscraper Installation ------------ Sunscraper requires Qt 4.x and QtWebkit packages to be installed on the target system. *Sunscraper is not a Ruby C extension*; it works by building a Qt shared library and loading it through [FFI][]. [FFI]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_Function_Interface gem install sunscraper Runtime requirements -------------------- On Linux with Qt versions <= 4.8, Sunscraper requires a running X server and a valid `DISPLAY` environment variable. Consider using [Xvfb][] on a GUI-less production server. [Xvfb]: http://www.x.org/releases/X11R7.6/doc/man/man1/Xvfb.1.xhtml Compatibility ------------- Sunscraper should be compatible across all major implementations on all major operating systems, including Ruby MRI 1.9, JRuby, Rubinius and MacRuby running on GNU/Linux, OS X and Windows. JRuby versions up to 1.6.5 are known not to work due to a bug in its FFI library. Ruby MRI 1.8 is not supported because it has a braindead threading model and will never be because I don't care. Thread safety ------------- Sunscraper is thread-safe. License ------- Sunscraper is distributed under the terms of a MIT license; see LICENSE in the source distribution.