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i am building a crawler and i am using Mechanize. I wish to click on a radio button. How do i do that ?

Like for example there are two radio buttons say 'A' and 'B'. The website automatically selects B, but i want 'A' using Mechanize in ruby. I am also using the latest version on Mechanize.

Kaushik Thirthappa
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There are a couple of ways to do this. Probably the best would be to use the radio button's name or id:

form.radiobutton_with(:name => /b/).check

You could also do something like this:

form.radiobuttons.first.check

Which is more succinct, but more likely to break (if for instance you were to change the design of your form).

Alex Peattie
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  • thanks a lot for that. I used `form.radiobuttons[0].checked=true` but that didnt make `form.radiobuttons[1].checked=false` i had to do that manually, anything you can suggest ? – Kaushik Thirthappa Nov 12 '11 at 03:00
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If you want to access a specific radio button out of a group of radio buttons, you can do so like this:

form.radiobutton_with(name: 'Choose wisely', value: 'Carpenter Goblet').check

This will allow you to choose the specific radio button with the desired value, this is better than selecting the radio button from its group using an index.

Ray Wong
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