If you want to select a specific option, there's a much easier way.
Just use the select_list's .select method
b.select_list(:name => 'entry.6.single').select 'Chrome'
On Tuesday, April 24, 2012 1:34:47 PM UTC-7, krizzo wrote:
>
> I wanted to get the list of options and then have it select one of them.
> Interesting that I have to include the .text to dereference the string.
> That worked thanks for the help. I was searching all over trying to find
> how to get the value so I could select it.
>
> krizzo
>
> On Tuesday, April 24, 2012 2:05:26 PM UTC-6, Dan wrote:
>>
>> I'm not sure what you're trying to do exactly, but you need to tell it
>> you're looking for the text
>>
>> puts contents[0].text
>>
>> You also may want to consider something like this instead of an array,
>> but again I'm not really sure what you're trying to do.
>>
>> b.select_list(:name => 'entry.6.single').options.each do |opt|
>> p opt.text
>> end
>>
>> On Tuesday, April 24, 2012 3:30:04 PM UTC-4, krizzo wrote:
>>>
>>> I created this test script because I was having issues with another
>>> script that needed to work with select_list. This is having the same issue.
>>> From my understanding "contents[0]" should print out "Firefox" but instead
>>> I get a memory location. I printed the "memory" location out and it's not a
>>> simple array of the options it almost looks like the browser object.
>>>
>>> I wanted to know if this was a known issue or is my understanding
>>> incorrect on options returning an array?
>>>
>>> ## Output
>>> #<Watir::Option:0x816f138>
>>> [
>>> [0] "test",
>>> [1] "one",
>>> [2] "two",
>>> [3] "three"
>>> ]
>>>
>>> ## Test Script
>>>
>>> require 'rubygems'
>>> require 'ap'
>>> require 'watir-webdriver'
>>> url = "
>>> https://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?hl=en&formkey=dDliTk5XU1R4RUMtb2c1WDZxWHNENmc6MQ#gid=0
>>> "
>>> myArray = %w[test one two three]
>>> b = Watir::Browser.new :firefox, :profile => 'LoL'
>>> b.goto url
>>> contents = Array.new
>>> contents = b.select_list(:name => 'entry.6.single').options
>>> puts contents[0]
>>> ap myArray
>>> b.close
>>>
>>>
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