Scenario : I mapped a network drive on a Win XP machine and I double click a .bat file to execute this Ruby script. The .rb and .bat file reside on this networked drive. The batch file is as follows : Z: cd Z:\ABC\StatusCheck\ "C:\Program Files\Ruby\Bin\ruby.exe" Z:\ABC\StatusCheck\rubyScript.rb 6 The Ruby file is as follows : requ...
Or can it be used to automate websites made with other technologies as well? ...
Seems none of the code I've tried has any affect. My intention is to close any and all JavaScript prompts that may come up by hitting the "OK" button. Problem is, my script has no affect on the prompts that come up. In other words, it does nothing. Here's what I have: fx = FireWatir::Firefox.start(somepage) fx.startClicker("OK") fx.but...
I have been expeirmenting with Watir, Nokogir and Hpricot. All of these use top->down approach which is my problem. i.e. they use element type to search element. I want to find out the element using the text without knowing element type. e.g. <element1> <element2> Text2 </element2> <element3> Text3 </element3> text4 </elem...
Hello there, after using this excellent peace of software called FireWatir, I wonder if there is a way to integrate jQuery-selector-magic to my test. My first attempt is to use firewatir's js_eval() method like this require 'rubygems' require 'firewatir' f = FireWatir::Firefox.new f.js_eval("alert(42);") The only thing I get is a ...
I'm using watir for safari with ruby 1.8.7 on OSX Snow leopard. I want to click a button, the only one in the page, that has neither id nor name. It only has an onckick property and the text within the tag.. How to do that? Is there a way to list all buttons on the page, and get the first (and only) one? thanks ...
Hi, I am using Firefox and i have a page which has an <iframe> Tag. The contents embedded within this tag cannot be seen from normal "View Page source" option. So i installed Firebug plugin and i can get see the contents using Firebug. My issue is, i cannot script any of these elements using FireWatir. Anybody has any ideas how to do...
I have a JavaScript-heavy Rails app which I am testing in watir. I have two specific testing requirements: I need to be able to simulate moving the mouse to a specific area of the screen (or at least triggering the onmouseover event for a div) Evaluating a snippet of JavaScript once the above has happened to see if a flag is set correc...
I'm new to Watir and I've having a little trouble getting logged in in my tests. I use authlogic as my authentication method of choice. When a User registers, they are sent an email with a confirmation link. Clicking this link confirms their account and they can then login. The issue I'm having is how do I confirm the User when using Wa...
Hi, I'm trying to use FireWatir (1.6.5) to access a site using Basic Authentication and I've been unable to find a solution that works on Firefox in Linux. Does FireWatir 1.6.5 support Basic Authentication on Linux? I've been searching the web for 2 days and can't get a straight answer anywhere as to how to do this. The only thread I...
I am using Watir on Windows and when my script tries to run on Firefox, I see this error on my console: JsshSocket::JSReferenceError: Components is not definedReferenceError: Components is not defined C:/xampp/Ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/firewatir-1.6.5/lib/firewatir/jssh_socket.rb:12:in `js_eval' C:/xampp/Ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1....
I've written an rspec test using Watir against a web application and it's running fine. However, I now want to be able to run this test against the web application running on different domain names. My initial thought was that I'd be able to pass a value to spec at the command line to set a variable within my script, but I can't see an...
I have a button on my page that changes depending on what radio button is clicked. The button has the same text on it with the same id, but different classes. How do I test if the two different buttons exist depending on the radio. <a id="submit" class="on" href="javascript:submit();">Submit</a> <a id="submit" class="off" href="javascri...
System: Window 7 Internet Explorer 8 Ruby 1.8 Watir 1.6.5 If I manually open a browser window and then visit a site that causes a second browser window to open and then use the Watir::IE.attach method to find the second browser window everything work fine. The problem is when I open the first Internet Explorer window with the command...
I am writing a watir script to test an upload form. But the script does not automatically choose the file that is to be uploaded from my harddrive. Instead IE stops with the file chooser dialog open. As soon as I manually select the to be uploaded file in the dialog and click ok, watir continues as desired. I wonder why it stops. This...
Watir can find a text on a page: <span id="i1" name="n1>Some Text</span> e.text.include?("Some Text") But how can I get the name or id of the span, when I only know "Some Text" e.text.findInPage("Some Text").parentElement.id (should be "i1") e.text.findInPage("Some Text").parentElement.name (should be "n1"); Something like this ex...
This was added to the page later with jQuery: <input name="pdfRadio" id="pdfRadioNo0" value="0" type="radio"> This code: radio_id = "pdfRadioNo0" ie.radio(:id, radio_id).set() does not set it but returns an error message: Watir::Exception::UnknownObjectException: Unable to locate element, using {:id=>"pdfRadioNo0"} Does watir al...
I'm starting to use watir. I need to create a test script to login in the application. The code bellow is the script from the page. I saw some examples with buttons and links, but I don't know how to "submit"("onclick=SubmitForm() type=button value="Sign In") the information. ...
Does watir's browser.text.include? count text inside invisible divs? If so, how to search only for visible text? I put all the instructions into the html from the beginning and use jQuery to hide and unhide the relevant parts. How can I use watir's waiter to wait for only text that is visible? My problem is, that the waiter always re...
Hello, I am a newbie in WATIR. The problem I am facing is - The application I am testing has thumbnails (like Windows icons) placed on the page and I need to double click it. On doing that, an custom popup (ajax popup implemented in javascript) will open. The fire_event("ondblclick") is not working for me. I also tried 'click' twice bu...