undefined method `save_as' for #<Mechanize::Image:0x000000057e6580>

[phlegx]

Switching over from version 2.1.1 to 2.5.1 I do get the following error:

undefined method save_as' for #Mechanize::Image:0x000000057e6580`

The code would be:

...
agent.get(image_url).save_as folder
...

Any ideas what might be wrong here?

[aboutaaron]

Ran into the same issue today myself. I'm calling save_as in a loop but didn't run into this issue earlier today when scraping for .xls files on another page.

[aboutaaron]

@phlegx oddly enough, the save method works just fine for me.

[phlegx]

@aboutaaron For me the "save" method works too. Thank you for the hint!

Looks like "save_as" method simply has been removed. Unfortunately nothing was mentioned in the CHANGELOG...

[leejarvis]

It looks like Mechanize::Image which inherits from Mechanize::Download never had a save_as method. File and FileSaver have these methods, perhaps that was confusing?

[2] pry(main)> Mechanize::VERSION
=> "2.1.1"
[6] pry(main)> Mechanize::Image.new.save_as
NoMethodError: undefined method `save_as' for #<Mechanize::Image:0x007fac2da9f890>

[drbrain]

Previously a resource with an image/* MIME type was returned as a Mechanize::File, so this is partially true.

Since #save_as worked in Mechanize 2.0 we should add #save_as to Mechanize::Download