Hi All,
I was explaining to my friend about Watir and its nice capabilities.
In the middle of the conversation he asked me as to why Watir uses
Ruby, which is not as well known as Perl, Python or other scripting
languages. Is there a special reason why Ruby is being used or is
just incidental.
Bret sums it up nicely here:
http://www.io.com/~wazmo/blog/archives/2004_08.html#000221
Bret will be able to explain things better than I can.
Bret Pettichord and Brian Marick are really responsible for bringing Ruby
into the forefront in the testing community. If it weren't for them, I
probably
Bret Pettichord wrote:
Python could work. Ruby was Brian Marick's choice and he was convinced
to switch from Python to Ruby when he sat with Dave Thomas and Andy
Hunt on a bus.
Oh! Being a devote Ruby hacker, I don't even want to imagine the
possibilities of that bus ride not happening...
This is high on my list to make this work. Many people expect it to work
this way and are surprised when it doesn't.
Last week i paired with Elisabeth Hendrickson and Andy Tinkham and we
started working on what it would take to implement this.
Bret
At 08:45 PM 7/28/2005, Hue Mach Dieu
At 10:27 AM 7/28/2005, Michael Kelly wrote:
There's no reason why it couldn't be written in Ruby, no?
The support for working with events in Ruby's WIN32OLE library is extremely
limited.
You can take a look at the code for IE#capture_events -- this pretty much
pushes the limits of what you
