I tried this out here and it worked fine
http://derp-bear.herokuapp.com/forms/basic_form_example

> require 'watir-webdriver'
 => true
> Watir::VERSION
 => "0.6.8"
> b = Watir::Browser.new :firefox
 => #<Watir::Browser:0x5b7f48c3ab2514ba url="about:blank" title="">
> b.goto 'derp-bear.herokuapp.com'
 => "http://derp-bear.herokuapp.com/";
> b.text_field(id: 'free_text_area')
 => #<Watir::TextField:0x..f808e0044d909ac2 located=false
selector={:id=>"free_text_area", :tag_name=>"input or textarea",
:type=>"(any text type)"}>
> b.text_field(id: 'free_text_area').send_keys [:command, 'a']
 => ""
> b.text_field(id: 'free_text_area').send_keys [:command, 'x']
 => ""
> b.text_field(id: 'free_text_area').send_keys [:command, 'v']
 => ""


On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 7:07 PM, Kyle <[email protected]> wrote:

> Using Watir-webdriver and Chrome 33 on OSX.
>
> The site I'm trying to automate has a button to copy text to the
> clipboard, and I have that automated and have confirmed that the text is
> being copied. However, when I go to the textarea I'm trying to paste into
> using send_keys [:command, 'v'] nothing seems to happen, but I get no
> errors and the test continues on after that line. Sending text with
> send_keys seems to work fine, but I've also tried using  send_keys
> [:command, 'a'] and send_keys [:command, 'x'] which also seem to not work.
>
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