Re: [wtr-general] Error in installation of gem
hi I am trying to install watir in my PC. while I am running the command gem update --system or gem install watir It always throws following error ERROR: While executing gem ... (OptionParser::AmbiguousOption) ambiguous option: -system because my company hava domain manager. how to resolve it,thank you! 2009/12/9 chethan sarathy chethan2...@yahoo.co.in H I All, Here is the solution for Ruby Installation Updating the Gems. Pls read this article for more info http://rubyforge.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=35591 Steps: - Find the New Ruby Installer 186-27_rc2.exe. in http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=167 - Install the same (run the command ruby -v some times it throws error in that case uninstall install again). - Run gem update (earlier gem update --system doesn't work). - Run gem install watir. Done. This will start running Watir :) Thanks to Shivananda gemcutter google group for all the help they extended. Cheers, Chethan -- The INTERNET now has a personality. YOURS! See your Yahoo! Homepagehttp://in.rd.yahoo.com/tagline_yyi_1/*http://in.yahoo.com/. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Watir General group. To post to this group, send email to watir-general@googlegroups.com Before posting, please read the following guidelines: http://wiki.openqa.org/display/WTR/Support To unsubscribe from this group, send email to watir-general-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/watir-general -- 善待自己，相信自己，好运常伴自己！ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Watir General group. To post to this group, send email to watir-general@googlegroups.com Before posting, please read the following guidelines: http://wiki.openqa.org/display/WTR/Support To unsubscribe from this group, send email to watir-general-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/watir-general
Re: [wtr-general] XPath and IE
On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 10:55 AM, Josh Moore joshsmo...@gmail.com wrote: //*[local-name()=tr]/*[local-name()=td][text()=test_project]/../*[local-name()=td]/*[local-name()=a]/*[local-name()=img]...@title=Remove]/.. I know this does not solve your problem, but do you really need to use such complicated xpath? I would try to access the element with the simplest xpath possible. Željko -- watir.com - community manager watirpodcast.com - host -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Watir General group. To post to this group, send email to watir-general@googlegroups.com Before posting, please read the following guidelines: http://wiki.openqa.org/display/WTR/Support To unsubscribe from this group, send email to watir-general-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/watir-general
Re: [wtr-general] XPath and IE
Can you post the HTML? Why are you using XPath for accessing elements? - Angrez On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 3:28 PM, Željko Filipin zeljko.fili...@wa-research.ch wrote: On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 10:55 AM, Josh Moore joshsmo...@gmail.com wrote: //*[local-name()=tr]/*[local-name()=td][text()=test_project]/../*[local-name()=td]/*[local-name()=a]/*[local-name()=img]...@title=Remove]/.. I know this does not solve your problem, but do you really need to use such complicated xpath? I would try to access the element with the simplest xpath possible. Željko -- watir.com - community manager watirpodcast.com - host -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Watir General group. To post to this group, send email to watir-general@googlegroups.com Before posting, please read the following guidelines: http://wiki.openqa.org/display/WTR/Support To unsubscribe from this group, send email to watir-general-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/watir-general -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Watir General group. To post to this group, send email to watir-general@googlegroups.com Before posting, please read the following guidelines: http://wiki.openqa.org/display/WTR/Support To unsubscribe from this group, send email to watir-general-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/watir-general
[wtr-general] safariwatri - get elements by xpath
Hi, Not sure if this is the right group for safari-watir questions, but here goes: I'm trying to get a few tests built using watir (and cucumber/rspec) to run across firefox safari. Noticed that the elements_by_xpath function that watir provides isnt available in safariwatir. eg: The following line returns a list of all matching elements if browserObj was created using watir, however I dont see that function listed if I used safariwatir instead. browserObj.elements_by_xpath(.//*...@id='bookEntry']/div) Anyone aware of any way I could achieve this in safariwatir? Thanks, Hans __ See what's on at the movies in your area. Find out now: http://au.movies.yahoo.com/session-times/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Watir General group. To post to this group, send email to watir-general@googlegroups.com Before posting, please read the following guidelines: http://wiki.openqa.org/display/WTR/Support To unsubscribe from this group, send email to watir-general-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/watir-general
Re: [wtr-general] safariwatri - get elements by xpath
On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 1:33 PM, Hans Dushanthakumar hansrd...@yahoo.com wrote: browserObj.elements_by_xpath(.//*...@id='bookEntry']/div) If I understood your xpath, you are trying to access a div that is a child of an element that as an id. Something like this should work: browser.div(:id, 'bookEntry').div(:index, 1) I do not think safariwatir has xpath support. Željko -- watir.com - community manager watirpodcast.com - host -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Watir General group. To post to this group, send email to watir-general@googlegroups.com Before posting, please read the following guidelines: http://wiki.openqa.org/display/WTR/Support To unsubscribe from this group, send email to watir-general-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/watir-general
Re: [wtr-general] XPath and IE
Let me guess here you are trying to delete the project you don't have ID for delete button as the number of projects are not fixed. Is that correct? If yes, then does project name is unique across the applications? - Angrez On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 6:20 PM, Josh Moore joshsmo...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I attached the html as a file because it is pretty big. I am using XPath because we are using XHTML and the namespace seems to render the other accessor methods useless. Josh -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Watir General group. To post to this group, send email to watir-general@googlegroups.com Before posting, please read the following guidelines: http://wiki.openqa.org/display/WTR/Support To unsubscribe from this group, send email to watir-general-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/watir-general On Dec 29, 2009, at 6:33 PM, Angrez Singh wrote: Can you post the HTML? Why are you using XPath for accessing elements? - Angrez On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 3:28 PM, Željko Filipin zeljko.fili...@wa-research.ch wrote: On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 10:55 AM, Josh Moore joshsmo...@gmail.com wrote: //*[local-name()=tr]/*[local-name()=td][text()=test_project]/../*[local-name()=td]/*[local-name()=a]/*[local-name()=img]...@title=Remove]/.. I know this does not solve your problem, but do you really need to use such complicated xpath? I would try to access the element with the simplest xpath possible. Željko -- watir.com - community manager watirpodcast.com - host -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Watir General group. To post to this group, send email to watir-general@googlegroups.com Before posting, please read the following guidelines: http://wiki.openqa.org/display/WTR/Support To unsubscribe from this group, send email to watir-general-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/watir-general -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Watir General group. To post to this group, send email to watir-general@googlegroups.com Before posting, please read the following guidelines: http://wiki.openqa.org/display/WTR/Support To unsubscribe from this group, send email to watir-general-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/watir-general -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Watir General group. To post to this group, send email to watir-general@googlegroups.com Before posting, please read the following guidelines: http://wiki.openqa.org/display/WTR/Support To unsubscribe from this group, send email to watir-general-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/watir-general
Re: [wtr-general] XPath and IE
On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 10:55 AM, Josh Moore joshsmo...@gmail.com wrote: //*[local-name()=tr]/*[local-name()=td][text()=test_project]/../*[local-name()=td]/*[local-name()=a]/*[local-name()=img]...@title=Remove]/.. Does this work (not tested)? browser.image(:title = Remove, :after? = browser.cell(:text = test_project)) Željko -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Watir General group. To post to this group, send email to watir-general@googlegroups.com Before posting, please read the following guidelines: http://wiki.openqa.org/display/WTR/Support To unsubscribe from this group, send email to watir-general-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/watir-general
[wtr-general] IE 8 Crashes
Hi, I have a simple automation application built in Ruby 1.8.6 and Watir 1.6.5. The application takes control of the browser and goes through 3 or 4 pages of an online website. It fills in a couple forms and pushes a few buttons, nothing fancy. This application works as tested on several computers, including XP and Vista, IE 7 and 8. On one particular computer, Windows Vista Home Premium Edition SP2 and IE 8, the application successfully opens a new browser, but the second it sends an automation command (browser.goto), IE8 crashes. This happens each and every time and I'm wondering if anyone else has had the same experience. Thanks, Jeff -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Watir General group. To post to this group, send email to watir-general@googlegroups.com Before posting, please read the following guidelines: http://wiki.openqa.org/display/WTR/Support To unsubscribe from this group, send email to watir-general-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/watir-general
Re: [wtr-general] Difficulty installing Watir (needs make); slow performance with FireWatir
Hi Jesse, On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 6:42 PM, Jesse jedelst...@ucmerced.edu wrote: Hello! I'm using Ruby and Watir to automatically look up some data about court decisions from an online database. The site doesn't play nice with the common solutions for non-interactively accessing sites (like Mechanize) so I turned to Watir. My code doesn't have anything proprietary, but it won't do much for you unless you have a subscription to LexisNexis Academic - anyway, here's the code: http://pastebin.com/me3a3041 So this mostly works as advertised but I've had a couple problems. Incidentally, I'm doing this on both OS X 10.6 and Windows XP, with Ruby 1.8.7 and RubyGems 1.3.5. Ruby 1.8.7 on Windows? The recommended version to use for now is 1.8.6 26 from the one click installer http://rubyforge.org/frs/download.php/29263/ruby186-26.exe This won't require you to build required dependencies as you mention below. Some of the win32 libraries that we depend on have precompiled libraries for this version of Ruby built with msvc6 (mswin32), which automatically get picked up instead of built. The other option is rather experimental but uses the new release candidate of the Windows Ruby installer. Available on the same page on rubyforge, you'd need both the installer for the 186 version and the devkit for the same. Dig in if you want, I've been doing some playing around with it and need to spend more time sussing out what issues there may be and writing up instructions since it is going to replace the current one click as the de facto standard fairly soon. 1) I can't seem to install Watir. On Windows, running 'gem install watir' gives the following errors: Building native extensions. This could take a while... ERROR: Error installing watir: ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension. C:/Ruby/bin/ruby.exe extconf.rb checking for strncpy_s()... no creating Makefile make 'make' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file. I understand that this is because the computers I'm trying to install on don't have the appropriate compiler or the 'make' program. And I'm guessing this is an issue because Watir needs to use the Win32 IDE in order to control Internet Explorer. But is there any way to install Watir and not have to worry about this stuff? I'm trying to make this script for a user who's not so computer-savvy, and he won't know what to do with compilers and cygwin and all that fun stuff. I found some binary versions of older Watir versions online, but they've proven to be useless - even breaking my copy of Ruby, presumably because I wasn't installing them right. 2) I'm experiencing severe slowdown with FireWatir, getting worse and worse as a session goes on. Basically, my program is intended to look up thousands of strings from a search engine. But performance seems to get worse every time - by the 20th pass, the thing is taking around two seconds longer to retrieve the data (including entering a string into a search box, waiting for the search to come back, and running some regexes on the returned page to get the needed data). From a little testing my suspicion is that this is a known problem, as indicated by this posting: http://rubyforge.org/pipermail/wtr-development/2007-November/000669.html I've worked around it by just relaunching Firefox every 20 trials or so, which seems to take care of the problem. Any ideas for another solution to the slowdown issue? This is reproducible with OS X 10.6 running Firefox 3.5.6, and with Windows XP running Firefox 3.0.16 (the newest version didn't seem to work), both being controlled by FireWatir 1.6.5. Not sure why the slowdown, possibly Angrez can comment on this. There certainly seem to be some cases where the jssh plugin is generally slow as you mentioned, though we've not narrowed that down. Jesse -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Watir General group. To post to this group, send email to watir-general@googlegroups.com Before posting, please read the following guidelines: http://wiki.openqa.org/display/WTR/Support To unsubscribe from this group, send email to watir-general-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/watir-general -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Watir General group. To post to this group, send email to watir-general@googlegroups.com Before posting, please read the following guidelines: http://wiki.openqa.org/display/WTR/Support To unsubscribe from this group, send email to watir-general-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/watir-general
[wtr-general] Re: Fwd: Regarding Getting Page Text in Watir and FireWatir
Hello, What does your code look like? On Dec 27, 8:15 pm, Pallavi Sharma write2pall...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Has anyone here answer for this please. Regards Pallavi. -- Forwarded message -- From: Pallavi Sharma write2pall...@gmail.com Date: Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 10:23 AM Subject: Regarding Getting Page Text in Watir and FireWatir To: watir-general@googlegroups.com Hello If i try to get the page text for watir and firewatir a peculiar problem arises; for watir if there is br tag then with the test a new line appers but for Firewatir this doesn't happen. I am not able to run directly my test cases made in watir into firewatir due to this behaviour as the split fails on the output of this method . Is there is something we could do about it/ or any other way?? Regards Pallavi. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Watir General group. To post to this group, send email to watir-general@googlegroups.com Before posting, please read the following guidelines: http://wiki.openqa.org/display/WTR/Support To unsubscribe from this group, send email to watir-general-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/watir-general
Re: [wtr-general] XPath and IE
Hi, I was able to figure out another solution by using the table object and iterating over it. However, if you have any ideas on the XPath I would still be interested in hearing about them. Thanks, Josh On Dec 29, 2009, at 6:33 PM, Angrez Singh wrote: Can you post the HTML? Why are you using XPath for accessing elements? - Angrez On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 3:28 PM, Željko Filipin zeljko.fili...@wa-research.ch wrote: On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 10:55 AM, Josh Moore joshsmo...@gmail.com wrote: //*[local-name()=tr]/*[local-name()=td][text()=test_project]/../*[local-name()=td]/*[local-name()=a]/*[local-name()=img]...@title=Remove]/.. I know this does not solve your problem, but do you really need to use such complicated xpath? I would try to access the element with the simplest xpath possible. Željko -- watir.com - community manager watirpodcast.com - host -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Watir General group. To post to this group, send email to watir-general@googlegroups.com Before posting, please read the following guidelines: http://wiki.openqa.org/display/WTR/Support To unsubscribe from this group, send email to watir-general-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/watir-general -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Watir General group. To post to this group, send email to watir-general@googlegroups.com Before posting, please read the following guidelines: http://wiki.openqa.org/display/WTR/Support To unsubscribe from this group, send email to watir-general-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/watir-general -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Watir General group. To post to this group, send email to watir-general@googlegroups.com Before posting, please read the following guidelines: http://wiki.openqa.org/display/WTR/Support To unsubscribe from this group, send email to watir-general-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/watir-general
[wtr-general] Re: IE 8 Crashes
Hi Jeff! I haven't heard of this problem. Can you provide any errors you're getting when the browser crashes? Have you verified that you can manually access the URL in an IE8 browser on this system? If so, have you tried stepping through opening a new browser and then going to the site through irb? You could also try the same steps with a Firefox browser to narrow the problem down a bit. Hope this helps! -Tiffany On Dec 29, 9:51 am, Jeff Savin jeff.sa...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I have a simple automation application built in Ruby 1.8.6 and Watir 1.6.5. The application takes control of the browser and goes through 3 or 4 pages of an online website. It fills in a couple forms and pushes a few buttons, nothing fancy. This application works as tested on several computers, including XP and Vista, IE 7 and 8. On one particular computer, Windows Vista Home Premium Edition SP2 and IE 8, the application successfully opens a new browser, but the second it sends an automation command (browser.goto), IE8 crashes. This happens each and every time and I'm wondering if anyone else has had the same experience. Thanks, Jeff -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Watir General group. To post to this group, send email to watir-general@googlegroups.com Before posting, please read the following guidelines: http://wiki.openqa.org/display/WTR/Support To unsubscribe from this group, send email to watir-general-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/watir-general
[wtr-general] Re: unexpected popup window which has no title ::: need help
Thanks for providing the solution that worked for you. It may help someone else with the same problem. -Tiffany On Dec 28, 2:17 am, Pallavi Sharma write2pall...@gmail.com wrote: Chetan If its an unexpected window with no title and you just wish to detect and close it, then Auto IT script which is provided in popup helps would work. I am facing the difficulty in identifying the specific button like OK, Cancel Adding watir general groups for everyone's benefit. Regards Pallavi. On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 2:45 PM, Chetan Patel chat.pa...@gmail.com wrote: HI Pallavi, Greetings, This is chetan patel and working as software eng at indusface ,Baroda ,Gujarat. I have got your reference from Google group (firewatir) I am facing same problem u have , how to manage unexpected popup window which has no title(I have installed autoIt on my machine) Please send me snap of code if you have got any solutions. Thanks, Chetan J. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Watir General group. To post to this group, send email to watir-general@googlegroups.com Before posting, please read the following guidelines: http://wiki.openqa.org/display/WTR/Support To unsubscribe from this group, send email to watir-general-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/watir-general
Re: [wtr-general] Error in installation of gem
thread name can i have it ,thank you. watir-1.5.4.gem have downloaded,it can help me ? 2009/12/29 Wesley Chen cjq@gmail.com It is a different topic, please open a new thread. Please see the doc: http://wiki.openqa.org/display/WTR/Installation And then try again. Thanks. Wesley Chen. For life, the easier, the better. 2009/12/29 lu.hr2009 lu.hr2009 lu.hr2...@gmail.com hi I am trying to install watir in my PC. while I am running the command gem update --system or gem install watir It always throws following error ERROR: While executing gem ... (OptionParser::AmbiguousOption) ambiguous option: -system because my company hava domain manager. how to resolve it,thank you! 2009/12/9 chethan sarathy chethan2...@yahoo.co.in H I All, Here is the solution for Ruby Installation Updating the Gems. Pls read this article for more info http://rubyforge.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=35591 Steps: - Find the New Ruby Installer 186-27_rc2.exe. in http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=167 - Install the same (run the command ruby -v some times it throws error in that case uninstall install again). - Run gem update (earlier gem update --system doesn't work). - Run gem install watir. Done. This will start running Watir :) Thanks to Shivananda gemcutter google group for all the help they extended. Cheers, Chethan -- The INTERNET now has a personality. YOURS! See your Yahoo! Homepagehttp://in.rd.yahoo.com/tagline_yyi_1/*http://in.yahoo.com/. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Watir General group. To post to this group, send email to watir-general@googlegroups.com Before posting, please read the following guidelines: http://wiki.openqa.org/display/WTR/Support To unsubscribe from this group, send email to watir-general-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/watir-general -- 善待自己，相信自己，好运常伴自己！ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Watir General group. To post to this group, send email to watir-general@googlegroups.com Before posting, please read the following guidelines: http://wiki.openqa.org/display/WTR/Support To unsubscribe from this group, send email to watir-general-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/watir-general -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Watir General group. To post to this group, send email to watir-general@googlegroups.com Before posting, please read the following guidelines: http://wiki.openqa.org/display/WTR/Support To unsubscribe from this group, send email to watir-general-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/watir-general -- 善待自己，相信自己，好运常伴自己！ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Watir General group. To post to this group, send email to watir-general@googlegroups.com Before posting, please read the following guidelines: http://wiki.openqa.org/display/WTR/Support To unsubscribe from this group, send email to watir-general-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/watir-general
Re: [wtr-general] Re: Fwd: Regarding Getting Page Text in Watir and FireWatir
Hi My code looks like this: Say the input is: h1 hello br bye br /h1 Now if you do from watir saying puts ie.text it will print hello bye so text is seperated by new line but with firewatir ff.text output is: hello bye separated by space. So thats my problem. As the delimiter used by watir and firewatir is not same, i cannot simply run my same watir scripts in fire watir. Any solution or feedback on it... Regards Pallavi. On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 4:52 AM, George george.sand...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, What does your code look like? On Dec 27, 8:15 pm, Pallavi Sharma write2pall...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Has anyone here answer for this please. Regards Pallavi. -- Forwarded message -- From: Pallavi Sharma write2pall...@gmail.com Date: Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 10:23 AM Subject: Regarding Getting Page Text in Watir and FireWatir To: watir-general@googlegroups.com Hello If i try to get the page text for watir and firewatir a peculiar problem arises; for watir if there is br tag then with the test a new line appers but for Firewatir this doesn't happen. I am not able to run directly my test cases made in watir into firewatir due to this behaviour as the split fails on the output of this method . Is there is something we could do about it/ or any other way?? Regards Pallavi. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Watir General group. To post to this group, send email to watir-general@googlegroups.com Before posting, please read the following guidelines: http://wiki.openqa.org/display/WTR/Support To unsubscribe from this group, send email to watir-general-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/watir-general -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Watir General group. To post to this group, send email to watir-general@googlegroups.com Before posting, please read the following guidelines: http://wiki.openqa.org/display/WTR/Support To unsubscribe from this group, send email to watir-general-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/watir-general
Re: [wtr-general] Difficulty installing Watir (needs make); slow performance with FireWatir
I have heard a lot about Firewatir slowing up entering the text in textbox control. While running unit test cases i was not able to reproduce it. May be if you can send a working code which I can run on my machine, I'll look into what is causing the problem. Thanks, Angrez On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 11:20 PM, Charley Baker charley.ba...@gmail.comwrote: Hi Jesse, On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 6:42 PM, Jesse jedelst...@ucmerced.edu wrote: Hello! I'm using Ruby and Watir to automatically look up some data about court decisions from an online database. The site doesn't play nice with the common solutions for non-interactively accessing sites (like Mechanize) so I turned to Watir. My code doesn't have anything proprietary, but it won't do much for you unless you have a subscription to LexisNexis Academic - anyway, here's the code: http://pastebin.com/me3a3041 So this mostly works as advertised but I've had a couple problems. Incidentally, I'm doing this on both OS X 10.6 and Windows XP, with Ruby 1.8.7 and RubyGems 1.3.5. Ruby 1.8.7 on Windows? The recommended version to use for now is 1.8.6 26 from the one click installer http://rubyforge.org/frs/download.php/29263/ruby186-26.exe This won't require you to build required dependencies as you mention below. Some of the win32 libraries that we depend on have precompiled libraries for this version of Ruby built with msvc6 (mswin32), which automatically get picked up instead of built. The other option is rather experimental but uses the new release candidate of the Windows Ruby installer. Available on the same page on rubyforge, you'd need both the installer for the 186 version and the devkit for the same. Dig in if you want, I've been doing some playing around with it and need to spend more time sussing out what issues there may be and writing up instructions since it is going to replace the current one click as the de facto standard fairly soon. 1) I can't seem to install Watir. On Windows, running 'gem install watir' gives the following errors: Building native extensions. This could take a while... ERROR: Error installing watir: ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension. C:/Ruby/bin/ruby.exe extconf.rb checking for strncpy_s()... no creating Makefile make 'make' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file. I understand that this is because the computers I'm trying to install on don't have the appropriate compiler or the 'make' program. And I'm guessing this is an issue because Watir needs to use the Win32 IDE in order to control Internet Explorer. But is there any way to install Watir and not have to worry about this stuff? I'm trying to make this script for a user who's not so computer-savvy, and he won't know what to do with compilers and cygwin and all that fun stuff. I found some binary versions of older Watir versions online, but they've proven to be useless - even breaking my copy of Ruby, presumably because I wasn't installing them right. 2) I'm experiencing severe slowdown with FireWatir, getting worse and worse as a session goes on. Basically, my program is intended to look up thousands of strings from a search engine. But performance seems to get worse every time - by the 20th pass, the thing is taking around two seconds longer to retrieve the data (including entering a string into a search box, waiting for the search to come back, and running some regexes on the returned page to get the needed data). From a little testing my suspicion is that this is a known problem, as indicated by this posting: http://rubyforge.org/pipermail/wtr-development/2007-November/000669.html I've worked around it by just relaunching Firefox every 20 trials or so, which seems to take care of the problem. Any ideas for another solution to the slowdown issue? This is reproducible with OS X 10.6 running Firefox 3.5.6, and with Windows XP running Firefox 3.0.16 (the newest version didn't seem to work), both being controlled by FireWatir 1.6.5. Not sure why the slowdown, possibly Angrez can comment on this. There certainly seem to be some cases where the jssh plugin is generally slow as you mentioned, though we've not narrowed that down. Jesse -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Watir General group. To post to this group, send email to watir-general@googlegroups.com Before posting, please read the following guidelines: http://wiki.openqa.org/display/WTR/Support To unsubscribe from this group, send email to watir-general-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/watir-general -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Watir General group. To post to this group, send email to watir-general@googlegroups.com Before posting, please read the following guidelines: http://wiki.openqa.org/display/WTR/Support
Re: [wtr-general] Error in installation of gem
Watir latest version is 1.6.5. Please don't use Watir1.5.4. Thanks. Wesley Chen. For life, the easier, the better. 2009/12/30 lu.hr2009 lu.hr2009 lu.hr2...@gmail.com thread name can i have it ,thank you. watir-1.5.4.gem have downloaded,it can help me ? 2009/12/29 Wesley Chen cjq@gmail.com It is a different topic, please open a new thread. Please see the doc: http://wiki.openqa.org/display/WTR/Installation And then try again. Thanks. Wesley Chen. For life, the easier, the better. 2009/12/29 lu.hr2009 lu.hr2009 lu.hr2...@gmail.com hi I am trying to install watir in my PC. while I am running the command gem update --system or gem install watir It always throws following error ERROR: While executing gem ... (OptionParser::AmbiguousOption) ambiguous option: -system because my company hava domain manager. how to resolve it,thank you! 2009/12/9 chethan sarathy chethan2...@yahoo.co.in H I All, Here is the solution for Ruby Installation Updating the Gems. Pls read this article for more info http://rubyforge.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=35591 Steps: - Find the New Ruby Installer 186-27_rc2.exe. in http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=167 - Install the same (run the command ruby -v some times it throws error in that case uninstall install again). - Run gem update (earlier gem update --system doesn't work). - Run gem install watir. Done. This will start running Watir :) Thanks to Shivananda gemcutter google group for all the help they extended. Cheers, Chethan -- The INTERNET now has a personality. YOURS! See your Yahoo! Homepagehttp://in.rd.yahoo.com/tagline_yyi_1/*http://in.yahoo.com/. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Watir General group. To post to this group, send email to watir-general@googlegroups.com Before posting, please read the following guidelines: http://wiki.openqa.org/display/WTR/Support To unsubscribe from this group, send email to watir-general-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/watir-general -- 善待自己，相信自己，好运常伴自己！ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Watir General group. To post to this group, send email to watir-general@googlegroups.com Before posting, please read the following guidelines: http://wiki.openqa.org/display/WTR/Support To unsubscribe from this group, send email to watir-general-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/watir-general -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Watir General group. To post to this group, send email to watir-general@googlegroups.com Before posting, please read the following guidelines: http://wiki.openqa.org/display/WTR/Support To unsubscribe from this group, send email to watir-general-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/watir-general -- 善待自己，相信自己，好运常伴自己！ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Watir General group. To post to this group, send email to watir-general@googlegroups.com Before posting, please read the following guidelines: http://wiki.openqa.org/display/WTR/Support To unsubscribe from this group, send email to watir-general-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/watir-general -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Watir General group. To post to this group, send email to watir-general@googlegroups.com Before posting, please read the following guidelines: http://wiki.openqa.org/display/WTR/Support To unsubscribe from this group, send email to watir-general-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/watir-general
