For the record, I have updated Watir readme to include all these libraries.
On Saturday, May 18, 2013 8:19:47 PM UTC+7, Alex Rodionov wrote: > > @Jarmo @Chuck > > I created this because I've been using > page-object<https://github.com/cheezy/page-object>for more than a year and I > didn't know abut test-factory and test-page. It > has a bit different API compared to them: test-factory and test-page > provide with #element class method, while page-object provides with a range > of tag-based methods (#div, #text_field, etc.) I find it much nicer as it > is more readable. > > I've been contributing to page-object constantly but at some point faced > architecture limitations which resulted that it may be easier to create my > own library which implements similar API other than modify page-object. So > I did just the same. > > The main idea is to be as close to Watir API as possible (the same > locators, method names) + some extra stuff. It's achieved because watirsome > is practically a "proxy" to Watir browser. This allowed me to move all > element definitions to class methods so it's much easier to support such > page classes. > > Extra stuff includes initializers for page classes and region modules (to > support polymorphous page > objects<http://p0deje.blogspot.ru/2012/01/polymorphous-page-objects.html>), > custom > locators which for now is any boolean method Watir::Element responds to. > For example: > > # find first visible text field with label "Username" > text_field :username, label: 'Username', visible: true > > I treat it as an alternative to gems you mentioned which is more suitable > for me. > > > On Saturday, May 18, 2013 6:46:25 PM UTC+7, Jarmo Pertman wrote: >> >> Hi! >> >> If you're looking something really lightweight, then my gem Test::Page is >> the one you're looking for: >> https://github.com/jarmo/test-page >> >> Jarmo >> >> On Friday, May 17, 2013 11:46:18 PM UTC+3, Chuck van der Linden wrote: >>> >>> On Monday, May 13, 2013 11:36:12 PM UTC-7, Alex Rodionov wrote: >>> >>>> Hey guys! >>>> >>>> I've recently released Watirsome, which is a gem I've been using at >>>> work for a long time as an alternative to well known page-object. >>>> >>>> It's a lot similar to it, but more dynamic and based on >>>> watir-webdriver. Thus (at least for now), it works only with it. >>>> >>>> Anyways, you can take a look at https://github.com/p0deje/watirsome and >>>> probably give it a shot! >>>> >>> >>> How is it different from, or would you contrast it with the >>> "test-factory" page objects gem? http://rubygems.org/gems/test-factory >>> >>> just wondering as that is a lightweight, designed for Watir page objects >>> gem that I'm using (and so far like very much) >>> >> -- -- 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] --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Watir General" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
