I want to test a set of ruby-on-rails applications. Specifically, I want to trigger all possible GET/POST requests available. I am considering using some web crawler-like tool, which could (recursively) send requests to my web server, get responses, and parse the response HTML file to get all possible "href tags", "form submission buttons", etc.
Essentially I want to see the performance of these web applications and get some logs of things like what are the request routes, parameters, database accesses, queries, transactions, etc.
Sending GET requests is relatively easy to handle, I would need to simply parse the HTML response and extract the href attributes of all anchors. However, I don't know how to handle those POST requests; they would require me to fill in all these parameter fields included in the form fields. I am wondering if there exist some tools doing such work. Or some tools I can easily modify (not too much) code to achieve my functionality?
Thanks a lot.
