Firewatir: Firewatir is not opening Firefox

Question

FireWatir

I recently started using Firewatir for testing, I followed all the required steps while installing firewatir but I am not able to run the script.

Here is the information from my local machine

ruby version: ruby 1.9.1p429 (2010-07-02 revision 28523) [i386-mingw32]

gems installed: C:>gem list

* LOCAL GEMS *

activesupport (3.0.0, 2.3.8) builder (2.1.2) commonwatir (1.6.5) firewatir (1.6.5) hoe (2.6.2) json_pure (1.4.6) rake (0.8.7) rubyforge (2.0.4) s4t-utils (1.0.4) user-choices (1.1.6.1) xml-simple (1.0.12)

########I used the sample script from the web

#Include the FireWatir file. 
require 'firewatir'

ff=FireWatir::Firefox.new
#Open yahoo mail. 
ff.goto("http://mail.yahoo.com")

#Put your user name. 
ff.text_field(:name,"login").set("User_Name")

#Put your password.
ff.text_field(:name,"passwd").set("Password")

#Click Sign In button.
ff.button(:value,"Sign In").click

#Click Sign Out button.
ff.link(:text, "Sign Out").click

#Close the browser.
ff.close

When I run the above script from the command prompt, instead of opening the firefox browser, it is opening a dialog box to select a program to open this.

I really appreciate that if anyone can help me with this or point me to the right directions.

Thanks

Answer 1

I was able to resolve the issue,not sure exactly how but I followed the following steps: 1. Uninstall and install ruby 2. gem update 3. rolled back activesupport from version 3.0.0 to activesupport 2.3.8. 4. uninstalled JSSH and installed it again and that sure fixed the issue