Archive for January, 2010
Watir on WebDriver
Jari Bakken just released Watir on WebDriver.
On Windows, install it with
gem install selenium-webdriver gem install watir-webdriver --pre
and use it with
require "rubygems" # optional require "watir-webdriver" browser = Watir::Browser.new(:firefox)
Supported browsers are Internet Explorer (:ie, :internet_explorer), Firefox (:ff, :firefox), Chrome (:chrome) and RemoteWebDriver Server (:remote).
Update 1: as Steve suggested, I have tried it on RubyInstaller.
Install RubyInstaller, DevKit and all required gems and it just works!
gem install selenium-webdriver gem install watir-webdriver --pre gem install win32-process
Update 2: It works on Mac.
My Mac came with Ruby and RubyGems installed, so it was just:
sudo gem install selenium-webdriver sudo gem install watir-webdriver --pre
Update 3: It works on Ubuntu Linux.
My Ubuntu did not have Ruby and RubyGems installed.
Install Ruby with:
sudo apt-get install ruby-full
You can install RubyGems with:
sudo apt-get install rubygems
but Jari said it would be better to install it from source. Downland the latest RubyGems tgz or zip file (rubygems-1.3.5.tgz and rubygems-1.3.5.zip at the moment), extract it, open Terminal in extracted folder and run:
sudo ruby setup.rb
Install watir-webdriver:
sudo gem1.8 install selenium-webdriver sudo gem1.8 install watir-webdriver --pre