Would that work if URL changes a few times a day? We cut what we call a 
release from development and the URL contains link to our product site in 
the dev enviroment with the change code. So basically its a new URL for 
every change we do. 
 

On Tuesday, October 2, 2012 4:02:19 PM UTC-7, Dave McNulla wrote:

> Of course. You can store information in a yaml file, ini file, or 
> properties file. Where I work, we use buildr with properties files that 
> allow us to switch the system under test as easily as using a different 
> environment variable:
>   buildr -e test cuke
> where test represents a test.properties file, and cuke runs our cucumber 
> feature files.
>
> Hope that helps,
>
> Dave
>
> On Tuesday, October 2, 2012 2:28:25 PM UTC-7, Ry wrote:
>>
>> I will try my best to explain my question. 
>>  
>> Is it possible...
>>  
>> I have several sites, they are essentially the same, (same menus, reports 
>> ect..) the GUI is identical, but data may vary. Test sites, essentially, 
>> but each site has a different URL in testing or staging environment. 
>>  
>> Because that is the case, currently, we have to edit our script and 
>> change the url each time we want to run a script to a specific site. 
>>  
>> THE QUESTION! =)
>>  
>> could the script have a variable of some sort that looks to a field in a 
>> web page (that we're building in house) to see what site is pasted in the 
>> field and then run the script using whatever site is listed in the field? 
>> or something similar to that, but basically a universal variable for the 
>> URL that someone can run across several sites with same GUI, but without 
>> having to edit the script. 
>>  
>> Thank you for any ideas on this.
>>
>

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