Yep, I understand. A lot similar does page-object by wrapping elements in own classes thus allowing to support both watir-webdriver and selenium-webdriver. The point of watirsome is a bit different - it exposes Watir classes so you could work with the same old well-known API. That's what I needed.
-- Cheerz, Alex Rodionov On Sunday, May 19, 2013 at 21:29 , Jarmo Pertman wrote: > By the way, element class method in test-page is not the same as your > tag-based methods. Element in test-page is a method for providing container > element - e.g. like "el" in Backbone.js. The method name is "element" because > it is framework agnostic - e.g. you can use it with Watir-WebDriver, > Selenium-Webdriver, Capybara or with whatever other framework - i'd say > that's the real main difference between test-page and Watirsome. > > Jarmo > > On Saturday, May 18, 2013 7:22:18 PM UTC+3, Alex Rodionov wrote: > > 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] (mailto:[email protected]) > http://groups.google.com/group/watir-general > [email protected] > (mailto:[email protected]) > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the Google > Groups "Watir General" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/watir-general/7a9os1u67MI/unsubscribe?hl=en. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > [email protected] > (mailto:[email protected]). > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- -- 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.
