Well ultimately, I'd like to be able to expose my scripts through an API so I can just a make a call to them to get them to run, so I eventually want to drop them onto a server and have something like Sinatra serve up the API functions.
Ever heard of anyone doing such a thing? It seems like celerity is the best option, but it's a little too finicky for my own likings. What do you think? On Mar 15, 7:03 pm, Ethan <notet...@gmail.com> wrote: > It shouldn't be too hard to get a self-contained firefox installation, > confined to one folder, on a *nix, though I don't have specific experience > with that to guide you any further. As for packaging, I think you're pretty > much on your own there - including firewatir in an app seems like it would > require packaging up a ruby installation as well, with all of firewatir's > dependencies. Possible, I'm sure, but probably not something people have a > lot of experience with - you're probably forging your own path for that. > > On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 20:50, dchuk <darrindemc...@gmail.com> wrote: > > That's an interesting option, thanks for that. I'm actually on Ubuntu, > > and am most likely going to be needing solutions that work with Ubuntu > > nearly all of the time. > > > Do you know of any way to strip down firefox to the bare essentials > > and possibly even package it with a Watir based app? I'm going to go > > dig for a solution right now but wanted to run it by here first. > > > Thanks > > > On Mar 15, 6:38 pm, Ethan <notet...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > No bindings exist for that browser, I expect. There are bindings for > > safari > > > on Mac OSX, but I doubt they'd be at all compatible with that, the only > > > similarity being Webkit. > > > You might look into Firefox Portable, assuming you're on windows. I use > > that > > > to keep a consistent browser environment for all the machines that people > > I > > > work with use Watir on. You can run it alongside an installed Firefox > > > without conflict, at the same time. > > > > On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 20:16, dchuk <darrindemc...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > A possible option that I'm seeing is Arora (http://code.google.com/p/ > > > > arora/) > > > > > Do bindings exist for this browser? > > > > > On Mar 15, 2:26 pm, dchuk <darrindemc...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > So I've found Watir to be really cool, great for a lot of scraping > > and > > > > > testing needs. I especially love the ability to record interactions > > in > > > > > Firefox and for the most part have code ready to drop into my > > scripts. > > > > > But now I'm at a point where I'd like to be able to script out a tool > > > > > or test, then switch it to an internal browser solution that can be > > > > > packaged up and distributed to any machine and run on it's own, > > > > > irrelevant of the system it's on. > > > > > > I know there is Celerity, which obviously does this stuff, but it's > > > > > not the cleanest solution when it comes to working with AJAX and > > > > > Javascript. I've been thinking that potentially being able to package > > > > > up a stripped down webkit browser could be a different solution. That > > > > > way, you'd have the full power of Safari rendering without needing to > > > > > tie into a client's firefox or IE. The script would access it's own > > > > > browser instead of touching system browsers. > > > > > > Is this possible? Is there a way to tell your scripts to load a > > > > > specific webkit browser? > > > > > -- > > > > Before posting, please readhttp://watir.com/support. In short: search > > > > before you ask, be nice. > > > > > You received this message because you are subscribed to > > > >http://groups.google.com/group/watir-general > > > > To post: watir-general@googlegroups.com > > > > To unsubscribe: > > > > watir-general+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<watir-general%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > > <watir-general%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com<watir-general%252bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > > > -- > > Before posting, please readhttp://watir.com/support. In short: search > > before you ask, be nice. > > > You received this message because you are subscribed to > >http://groups.google.com/group/watir-general > > To post: watir-general@googlegroups.com > > To unsubscribe: > > watir-general+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<watir-general%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > > -- Before posting, please read http://watir.com/support. In short: search before you ask, be nice. You received this message because you are subscribed to http://groups.google.com/group/watir-general To post: watir-general@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe: watir-general+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com
