Oscar, You've piqued my interest now. By your suggestion, are you refering to editing the script file prior to running? or some other way? Is there a link to some documentation to show me more about your suggestion? An example would greatly ensure my understanding. Thanks! Ryan
On Wednesday, October 3, 2012 5:26:17 AM UTC-7, Oscar.Rieken wrote: > if its a differnt url for every build depending on the changes in the url > why not just pass that in to the url string at run time > > On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 8:48 PM, Ry <[email protected] <javascript:>>wrote: > >> 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. >>>> >>> -- >> Before posting, please read http://watir.com/support. In short: search >> before you ask, be nice. >> >> [email protected] <javascript:> >> http://groups.google.com/group/watir-general >> [email protected] <javascript:> >> > > -- Before posting, please read http://watir.com/support. In short: search before you ask, be nice. [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/watir-general [email protected]
