[wtr-general] Re: Stripping url

2009-05-06 Thread Jared
require 'uri' my_url=URI::parse(http://www.blah.com/uk/home.asp?variable;) puts my_url.scheme puts my_url.host puts my_url.path puts my_url.query You can put together the pieces you need: #{my_url.scheme}://#{my_url.host}#{my_url.path} So your code becomes: require 'watir' require 'uri'

[wtr-general] Re: Stripping url

2009-05-04 Thread Željko Filipin
On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 15:02, ash ashbr...@gmail.com wrote: I don't really know Ruby yet And if you want to know what can you do with strings in Ruby (for future reference): http://www.ruby-doc.org/core/classes/String.html Željko --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You

[wtr-general] Re: Stripping url

2009-05-04 Thread aidy lewis
or goto the command line ri String ri String#split Aidy 2009/5/4 Željko Filipin zeljko.fili...@wa-research.ch: On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 15:02, ash ashbr...@gmail.com wrote: I don't really know Ruby yet And if you want to know what can you do with strings in Ruby (for future reference):

[wtr-general] Re: Stripping url

2009-05-01 Thread karim rayani
do one thing if you know ruby somewhat url=ie.url url_splitted=url.split(?) puts url_splitted[0] should give you the base url On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 5:00 PM, ash ashbr...@gmail.com wrote: Having searched this group, plus the wiki, plus the mail archives I am still a little confused as to

[wtr-general] Re: Stripping url

2009-05-01 Thread ash
Spot on, thanks. I don't really know Ruby yet but using your advice I got it working. My new code; require 'watir' test_site=http://www.blah.com/uk/home.asp?src=ash; ie = Watir::IE.new ie.speed = :fast ie.goto test_site url=ie.url url_splitted=url.split(?) if url_splitted[0] ==