watir-webdriver wait for page load

Question

using watir-webdriver [ http://github.com/jarib/watir-webdriver ]

how do i wait for a page to load after i click a link?

at the moment i am doing

sleep n

but this is not ideal as the page response varies so much.

is their a method to test whether the page is ready or whether their is a certain element in the page. I understand in the normal watir gem there is Watir::Waiter.wait_until or something similar but I cannot see this in the webdriver version.

Answer 1

I don't know if they're the best way, but this is how I'm handling this for waiting for updating div to clear:

while browser.div(:id=>"updating_div").visible? do sleep 1 end

This is how I handle waiting for something to display:

until browser.div(:id=>"some_div").exists? do sleep 1 end

Answer 2

Did you read How to wait with Watir?

Answer 3

you can use wait_until....

or

waituntilExists methods

Answer 4

Today's release adds an optional require that brings in some helpers for waiting for elements. These are not (at the moment) available in Watir 1.6, so be aware if you use both libraries side by side.

Check the first question in the watir-webdriver FAQ.