[wtr-general] Re: How to suppress warning thrown by Watir.

2010-02-23 Thread AR
Other than changing the logic of how you are locating frames, the only thing I could find that dealt with suppression of warnings might be: ie.logger.level = Logger::ERROR As I don't have your code to test this solution, it's really a glorified guess. I'd be more inclined to approach the frame

[wtr-general] Re: Watir freezing when clicking on links

2010-02-23 Thread AR
Is there a chance you're testing a great number of pages? My only experience with this behavior was for testing around 20k pages in one script -- Internet Explorer would always croak after 5-8k pages. I switched to WWW::Mechanize for that script and it ran to completion. My tests were also on

[wtr-general] Re: Problem with attribute_value() -- Zeljko?

2010-02-11 Thread AR
I reinstalled watir 1.6.5 and this appears to be working across the board now. Not sure what was wrong with my installation. Thanks for the replies in working this out! On Feb 10, 10:27 pm, AR reed.a...@gmail.com wrote: Error is either Nil, or an error saying element not found depending on my

[wtr-general] Problem with attribute_value() -- Zeljko?

2010-02-10 Thread AR
One of our developers has been trying to make clearer hooks for my WATIR development efforts. We're testing a theory using custom tags to see if I can access elements, and after following the advice here and on Zeljko's blog, I'm running into an interesting issue. These examples are not in an

[wtr-general] Re: Problem with attribute_value() -- Zeljko?

2010-02-10 Thread AR
(:index, 1).attribute_value(qa) * * *I have the same Watir, ruby version, windows version as you.* *I think you may try the code again.* * * Wesley. For life, the easier, the better. On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 6:28 AM, AR reed.a...@gmail.com wrote: @ie.text_field(:xpath, //inp...@qa

[wtr-general] Re: Problem with attribute_value() -- Zeljko?

2010-02-10 Thread AR
 pm, Wesley Chen cjq@gmail.com wrote: No, I use: ruby 1.8.6 (2007-09-24 patchlevel 111) [i386-mswin32] Watir 1.6.5 What's your error message? I think your *text_field* part is not the same as mine. Wesley. For life, the easier, the better. On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 9:23 AM, AR reed.a

[wtr-general] Re: Safaiwatir clearing browser cookies and cache

2010-02-05 Thread AR
It's not part of SafariWatir, but rather the fileutils library. You're manually deleting the information in the directory where cookies are stored. Safari may store them in another location, but the principle is the same: require 'fileutils' $cookieDir = C:\\Documents and

[wtr-general] Re: fix funky command line behavior in watir-console

2010-02-05 Thread AR
Thanks for this! I've run into that same issue with irb from time to time, but just chalked it up to dealing with it. I use irb a lot for step by step development or concept testing before I invest in an organized and commented script. I'm not sure how you're using the #{libs} variable, so I

[wtr-general] Re: Handle Failures in Watir

2010-02-04 Thread AR
I'm able to use begin/rescue/end for 99% of cases. Normally I'll collect the error into an array for logging or an email report afterward. Using those conventions, the script never stops, and I don't have to be glued to the console to find out when it breaks. On Feb 4, 1:42 pm, tester86

[wtr-general] Re: how to run watirscript in background

2010-02-04 Thread AR
You can also set visible:false in the the options.yml file if you don't want to do it on a script by script basis. More details here: http://wiki.openqa.org/display/WTR/Browser.new On Feb 4, 11:37 am, orde ohil...@gmail.com wrote: You can set the browser as invisible after launching the browser

[wtr-general] Re: Problem with authentication popup

2010-01-19 Thread AR
Howdy. Can you please paste the relevant code and any errors/output that you may be getting? What exactly happens instead of the expected behavior? Also, if you're able to share the site that you're testing, that might help. Thanks, Adam On Jan 19, 4:07 am, xguarder shams...@gmail.com wrote:

[wtr-general] Re: after massive watir crawl..

2009-09-11 Thread AR
, this might be a viable solution for you. The WWW::Mech version of my script was just over 8 lines; pretty simple. Adam On Sep 8, 11:12 am, AR reed.a...@gmail.com wrote: I've had the same issue while doing a little sanity checking on some marketing websites that we control.  Using IE.new_process

[wtr-general] Re: after massive watir crawl..

2009-09-08 Thread AR
I've had the same issue while doing a little sanity checking on some marketing websites that we control. Using IE.new_process helped a little, but Ruby would always die before the script completed. On Aug 30, 6:33 pm, Chris McMahon christopher.mcma...@gmail.com wrote: looks to me that

[wtr-general] Re: Logging to file with Firefox

2009-05-11 Thread AR
a) Yes, of course! b) The error looks like it's being thrown from 'example_logger1' - can you please post the source of that file? Keeping the line numbers in errors helps, too -- it looks like you have removed them. On May 11, 7:55 am, ash ashbr...@gmail.com wrote: Having successfully

[wtr-general] Re: Logging to file with Firefox

2009-05-11 Thread AR
Nevermind, I'm blind. Line numbers still would have helped :D On May 11, 11:03 am, AR reed.a...@gmail.com wrote: a) Yes, of course! b) The error looks like it's being thrown from 'example_logger1' - can you please post the source of that file?  Keeping the line numbers in errors helps, too

[wtr-general] Re: Rename Excel Worksheets in Ruby?

2009-04-28 Thread AR
://rubyonwindows.blogspot.com/search/label/excel Hope this helps! -Tiffany On Apr 28, 12:43 pm, AR reed.a...@gmail.com wrote: I've checked all the usual suspects (rubygarden article, searching here, etc), but I haven't found the functionality for renaming an Excel worksheet (NOT workbook

[wtr-general] Re: Rescue

2009-04-27 Thread AR
Just to make sure I understand, let's lay out a basic rescue. -- code -- begin assertion actions if assertion passes rescue actions if assertion failed end #rescue block -- unrelated actions/functions here -- It sounds like you want the rescue to force the program to end safely rather

[wtr-general] Re: jssh error - Watir::Exception::UnableToStartJSShException

2009-04-23 Thread AR
I was getting the same error when I first set up my new environment. I started Firefox manually via the command line once with the JSSH option enabled, and have not seen the problem since that time. Not sure exactly why this was necessary, but this was the only change I made while testing the

[wtr-general] Re: Ramping up your Ruby skills

2009-04-03 Thread AR
I'm also a big fan of Marick's Everyday Scripting with Ruby: http://www.pragprog.com/titles/bmsft/everyday-scripting-with-ruby On Apr 3, 2:54 pm, Lisa Crispin lisa.cris...@gmail.com wrote: I mentioned it! On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 10:44 AM, Paul Rogers paul.rog...@shaw.ca wrote: im

[wtr-general] LoadError: 14001: This application has failed to start because....

2009-02-24 Thread AR
I'm getting this strange error after our Ops team built us some new testing VMs. I installed Ruby and Watir, and am getting the same error for anything that includes Watir. I can go into IRB and do Ruby all day, but as soon as I enter ie = Watir::IE.new, I get the following error. Has anyone

[wtr-general] Re: LoadError: 14001: This application has failed to start because....

2009-02-24 Thread AR
/ ri --title Builder -- Easy XML Building --main README --line-numbers --quiet lib CHANGES Ra kefile README doc/releases/builder-1.2.4.rdoc doc/releases/ builder-2.0.0.rdoc do c/releases/builder-2.1.1.rdoc (continuing with the rest of the installation) On Feb 24, 9:24 am, AR reed.a...@gmail.com wrote

[wtr-general] Re: LoadError: 14001: This application has failed to start because....

2009-02-24 Thread AR
time and only concerns the documentation for builder.  I has no effect on the way it runs. Jim On Feb 24, 10:20 am, AR reed.a...@gmail.com wrote: While viewing the watir installation again, I do get one error, but it seems to be fairly innocuous: ERROR:  While generating documentation

[wtr-general] Re: LoadError: 14001: This application has failed to start because....

2009-02-24 Thread AR
, Feb 24, 2009 at 9:42 AM, AR reed.a...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks Jim - I guess that leaves me with no leads.  I attempted the install again on another VM with the same 14001 error.  Google is especially dry on this topic - has no one seen this before? Adam On Feb 24, 10:34 am, Jim Matthews

[wtr-general] Re: LoadError: 14001: This application has failed to start because....

2009-02-24 Thread AR
gem. Lots of others are having problems with this as well, as you'll see if read some of the other active threads. Right now, best solution is to uninstall ruby, reinstall, and pray. We are working to better understand the details. Bret AR wrote: Thanks Jim - I guess that leaves me

[wtr-general] Watir IE Memory Usage

2009-01-07 Thread AR
I've been having some issues with scripts that ask IE to visit a lot of URLs eventually killing IE and failing. In these instances, ruby.exe is sitting right around 30Mb of memory, Excel (used to import data) is around 5Mb, and IE works itself up from 100Mb to 1.5Gb. At it's most basic point, I

[wtr-general] Re: Watir IE Memory Usage

2009-01-07 Thread AR
On Jan 7, 4:14 pm, Bret Pettichord b...@pettichord.com wrote: Try Watir::IE.new_process instead. This will open (and then close) a process each time, and therefore should avoid the memory leak. The funny thing about this one is that I'm using $HIDE_IE=true, and now each new browser window