ruby how to close a mechanize connection

Question

I have the problem with Too many connection on mechanize and I wounder how I close a connection since I want to build a scraper with proxy.

I did find the

agent.shutdown

but for somereason I cant get that to work. any help ?

10.times {

    minion = Mechanize.new { |mech|
        mech.open_timeout   = 15
        mech.read_timeout   = 15

    }

    minion.set_proxy '212.82.126.32', 80


    page = minion.get("http://www.whatsmyip.org/")
    proxy_ip_adress = page.parser.css('#ip').text
    puts proxy_ip_adress
    minion.shutdown

}

Answer 1

I think you'll want to use a Mechanize#start block:

10.times do
  Mechanize.start do |minion|
    minion.open_timeout   = 15
    minion.read_timeout   = 15

    minion.set_proxy '212.82.126.32', 80

    page = minion.get("http://www.whatsmyip.org/")
    proxy_ip_adress = page.parser.css('#ip').text
    puts proxy_ip_adress
  end
  # minion definitely doesn't exist anymore
end