i found a work around that works. 

If i was going to use they monkeypatch, where would i put this information? 

On Wednesday, March 28, 2012 2:02:48 PM UTC-7, Jarmo Pertman wrote:
>
> If it's absolutely needed then you can also add a monkeypatch for 
> yourself: 
> require "watir" 
>
> module Watir 
>   class Link 
>     attr_ole :name 
>   end 
> end 
>
> Jarmo 
>
> On Mar 28, 6:51 pm, hillary <[email protected]> wrote: 
> > i was getting the number in the #page_25 out of a database, so i just 
> added 
> > a line to get the value from the db that equals the link text. it's 
> working 
> > out. 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > On Tuesday, March 27, 2012 8:38:01 PM UTC-7, Anthony Hallett wrote: 
> > 
> > > why not try something simple like 
> > > browser.link(:xpath, "//a[@name ='#page_25']").click 
> > 
> > > On Thursday, 22 March 2012 09:23:31 UTC+11, hillary wrote: 
> > 
> > >> I had been identifying some links by name. I upgraded to rc3 and now 
> i 
> > >> get an error. 
> > 
> > >> browser.link(:name, "#page_25").click 
> > 
> > >> Watir::Exception::MissingWayOfFindingObjectException: name is an 
> unknown 
> > >> way of finding a <a> element (#page_25)

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