bad URI(is not URI?)

[syewell]

Hi David,

I'm trying to use tourbus for some performance testing but am running into the following error :

2013-02-10 23:39:42 Runner #1: bad URI(is not URI?): %257B:url=%253E%2522http://localhost:3000/%2522,%2520:headers=%253Enil%257D

My tourist class is as follows:

class Simple < Tourist
def tour_home
visit "http://localhost:3000"
assert_contain "Log In"
end
end

If this is a config error on my side I apologize, I'm working on sanding down my n00b edges!

Thanks,

Scott

[xunker]

I'm having the same issue, researching it. It appears to be an encoding/decoding issue. This is interesting:

1.9.3-p327 :031 > URI::decode("%257B:url=%253E%2522http://localhost:3000/%2522,%2520:headers=%253Enil%257D")
 => "%7B:url=%3E%22http://localhost:3000/%22,%20:headers=%3Enil%7D" 
1.9.3-p327 :032 > URI::decode("%7B:url=%3E%22http://localhost:3000/%22,%20:headers=%3Enil%7D")
  => "{:url=>\"http://localhost:3000/\", :headers=>nil}" 

..It appears that something is being URL-encoded twice before being passed to mechanize. Not sure why, but this s a start.

[xunker]

Ok, I found the root of the issue. The gemspec requires "mechanize" version >= 1.0.0. The current version of "mechanize" is 2.5.x and the the syntax of the "get" method has changed from 1.0.0 to now.

The tourbus gemspec should probably use "~> 1.0.0" instead of "=> 1.0.0", or patch the code to use the newer version of mechanize.

There is a work-around that I have found:

uninstall the the mechanize gem, and then explicitly install the mechanize 1.0.0 gem:

gem install mechanize -v="1.0.0"

[syewell]

Awesome, thanks for the work around Matt!

Scott

On Feb 12, 2013, at 6:38 PM, Matthew Nielsen notifications@github.com wrote:

Ok, I found the root of the issue. The gemspec requires "mechanize" version >= 1.0.0. The current version of "mechanize" is 2.5.x and the the syntax of the "get" method has changed from 1.0.0 to now.

The tourbus gemspec should probably use "~> 1.0.0" instead of "=> 1.0.0", or patch the code to use the newer version of mechanize.

There is a work-around that I have found:

uninstall the the mechanize gem, and then explicitly install the mechanize 1.0.0 gem:

gem install mechanize -v="1.0.0"
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[bbozo]

Depending on an ancient version of mechanize prevents the ability to include the tourbus in the Gemfile for Rails projects,

I removed the webrat_headers_patch.rb and it works well with mechanize 2.x now, I am not sure what the original monkey patch tried to do though and if any function is lost now - https://github.com/bbozo/tourbus/tree/make_tourbus_compatible_with_mechanize_2 (commit is named funny, it seemed to me that I was fixing webrat compatibility at the time)