Watir being a library for ruby, some familiarity with ruby is assumed as a
prerequisite for using it. That includes familiarity with ruby's
environment, including irb and rubygems. Likewise, opening a command prompt
is something we assume people know how to do. There are many excellent
resources
Not to further hammer the point here, but I've found that this message
board has provided MANY helpful how-to's and JIRA bugs for WATIR.
When an issue is discovered that has not been discussed previously,
someone always asks the original poster to update the Wiki or log a
JIRA bug. So, now that
This is an open note to all Watir users, despite my personalization.
The older one click installers had this checked on by default I believe.
It's not common on other systems - Linux, Mac - and the new installer from
what I recall as my systems are going down, doesn't explicitly set that
value.
Just to be clear, I'm using Ruby 1.8.6 and Watir 1.6.5, both
successfully installed according to the installation logs. I've
already tried updating all gems.
Thanks,
John
On Apr 7, 7:56 pm, John Williams jwil...@gmail.com wrote:
I couldn't get FireWatir to work on Mac, so I'm trying a more
Solution: In Ruby 1.8.4 or later, you need to preceed the require
'watir' command with require 'rubygems'.
How frustrating that this is not pointed out in the Watir
documentation or examples. I found the solution in another discussion
forum.
In general I'm very disappointed with the sorry state
Thanks, Ethan. You were correct!
On Apr 7, 8:37 pm, Ethan notet...@gmail.com wrote:
are you requiring rubygems first?
require 'rubygems'
require 'watir'
On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 23:09, John Williams jwil...@gmail.com wrote:
Just to be clear, I'm using Ruby 1.8.6 and Watir 1.6.5, both
why dont you write up your experienes, we can probably put it on the wiki.
Most of the docs are done by people who have been using watir for a while,
and theyve done a pretty good job as volunteers.
Paul
On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 9:41 PM, John Williams jwil...@gmail.com wrote:
Solution: In Ruby
