Thanks Dan, both for the FB advice and for the resource related to parsing with regex. I believe that is exactly the issue I'm having, so I'll use spend some time looking over those links.
On Tuesday, December 31, 2013 11:42:33 AM UTC-8, Dan wrote: > > This doesn't necessarily answer the question, but I imagine you'd be much > better off using the Facebook api for this sort of thing. There also seems > to be a few gems for working with the Graph API. To answer your question, > I and others have run into issues with parsing complex tables and there are > some strategies for dealing with that such as > here<http://zeljkofilipin.com/watir-nokogiri/> > . > > https://developers.facebook.com/docs/graph-api/reference/app#roles > > On Monday, December 30, 2013 2:36:23 AM UTC-5, Colin Milyoni wrote: >> >> Hi folks, >> >> I'm new to both ruby and to watir, so I apologize in advance if this is a >> massive rookie mistake. Assistance of any level is greatly appreciated. >> >> My problem is that I am running into a gigantic delay when executing a >> simple watir script. This is the first time that I've run into such a large >> delay. >> >> The point of the script is to go into Facebook's Developers section, open >> an app, then individually remove test users from the app by clicking on a >> checkbox which corresponds to a table row, then clicking a button on the >> page which initiates a delete action, confirming the delete, then closing >> the window. As you can see, I have a while-loop which will end the script >> once the table has been thinned to only 11. >> >> Here is the code itself: >> >> require 'watir-webdriver' >> b = Watir::Browser.new :chrome >> >> >> b.goto "http://www.facebook.com"; >> b.text_field(:name=> "email").set "xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" >> b.text_field(:name=> "pass").set "xxxxxxxxxx" >> b.input(:value=>"Log In").click >> >> b.goto " >> https://developers.facebook.com/apps/1423456271203959/roles?role=test+users >> " >> >> rows = b.elements(:class=>"odd").size >> >> while rows > 10 >> b.tr(:id =>/test_user/, :index => 10).checkbox(:type =>"checkbox").set >> b.input(:type =>"submit", :value=>"Remove").click >> sleep 1 >> b.input(:type =>"button", :value=>"Remove").click >> sleep 1 >> >> sleep 2 >> b.input(:type =>"button", :value=>"Close").click >> end >> >> puts "Purge completed!" >> >> >> After running the code line-by-line in IRB, I am able to conclusively >> isolate the issue to this line of code: >> >> b.tr(:id =>/test_user/, :index => 10).checkbox(:type =>"checkbox").set >> >> You can see how long it takes this line to execute by viewing the >> attached swf file called "Remove problem_with_selecting_ID_12-29-13.swf" >> >> When this line of code runs, the script takes 30-60 seconds just to run >> that single line of code. Apparently that method is a little too complex, >> but I'm not sure exactly why that is. Would anyone be able to explain to >> me what the problem is exactly? My hunch is that the way that it is >> parsing the DOM for that method is very inefficient. I'm sure there is >> another way I could write my code but I would most be interesting in being >> pointed to a resource which explains why it is that this is so inefficient. >> I'd really appreciate that. >> >> Thanks, >> >> Colin >> >> >> >> -- -- 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.
