Željko Filipin's Blog on Software and Testing

Watir 2.0 got released yesterday!

The big changes are deprecating FireWatir gem and zero based indexing. For more information read Watir 2.0 blog post at watir.com.

Sydney Opera House by globetravelers, under a Creative Commons license. (Opera and water. Almost a joke.)

Crossposted at watir.com.

For about two years (since AWTA 2009) I know that people at Opera Software are working on OperaWatir, but the release was scheduled as “soon” all the time. And then when I almost lost any hope, Andreas Tolf Tolfsen published a blog post saying OperaWatir is (pre)released! (One can argue is it a release or prelease, but who cares?)

The source code is available on GitHub at operasoftware/operawatir.

At the moment it works on Windows and GNU/Linux, only on JRuby (1.5.1 or above). (Please notice how they say GNU/Linux, Richard Stallman is probably smiling right now.) Mac is not yet supported.

There are no plans for a MRI/CRuby version.

OperaWatir, welcome to the Watir family!

I was listening to Ruby5 – Episode #125 this morning and they have mentioned gem-dependent gem. I thought it would be nice to find out which gems are using Watir.

Installation is simple:

sudo gem install gem-dependent

I had to install parallel gem too.

sudo gem install parallel

It took a few minutes to run and I got a few error messages, but I also got the results back for all Watir-related gems that I am aware of.

gem dependent watir --source http://rubygems.org
Downloading specs for 17589 gems
(...)
Empact-rpx_now > 0.0.0
watirloo >= 1.6.2
watirsplash = 1.6.6
wsl >= 1.6.2

gem dependent firewatir --source http://rubygems.org
(...)
brute-fuzzy >= 1.6.5
soda = 1.6.7
watir = 1.6.7
watircuke >= 1.6.5

gem dependent commonwatir --source http://rubygems.org
(...)
firewatir = 1.6.7
mk_firewatir = 1.6.5
rwebunit >= 1.6.2
ryba >= 1.6.5
watir = 1.6.7
watircuke >= 1.6.5

gem dependent safariwatir --source http://rubygems.org
(...)
auto_excerpt >= 0.3.7
watircuke >= 0.3.7

gem dependent watir-webdriver --source http://rubygems.org
(...)
watir-proxy >= 0

gem dependent celerity --source http://rubygems.org
(...)
buzzville >= 0
capybara >= 0.7.9
cuke4duke >= 0.8.2 (development)
nekohtml >= 0