Class: RubyHackernews::SignupService

Inherits:

Object

• Object
• RubyHackernews::SignupService

Includes:

MechanizeContext

Defined in:

lib/ruby-hackernews/services/signup_service.rb

Instance Method Summary

• #signup(username, password) ⇒ Object

Methods included from MechanizeContext

#[], #agent, agent=, #authenticated?, #require_authentication

Instance Method Details

#signup(username, password) ⇒ Object

# File 'lib/ruby-hackernews/services/signup_service.rb', line 6

def signup(username, password)
  raise "You are logged in already - logout first." if authenticated?
  page = agent.get(ConfigurationService.base_url)
  login_url = page.search(".pagetop/a").last['href'].sub("/","")
  login_page = agent.get(ConfigurationService.base_url + login_url)
  form = login_page.forms[1]
  form.acct = username
  form.pw = password
  page = form.submit
  return page.title != nil
end