Your code works just fine for me. Are you looking at the browser as this executes? The firefox.text is returning a sign in because there is something on the page that is requiring a sign in for some reason. Can you see what the sign in is for?
Titus On Thu, Mar 5, 2015 at 11:52 AM, Karthik Krish <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > I am new to watir and just started to play around with it. > However, using watir-webdriver, when I user browser.text, in firefox it is > only using the first line of the page, and similar result in chrome. My > code is as under. Please let me know if I am doing anything wrong. > > prints firefox.text returns "Sign in" when it should be returning the > entire search result body (or is my understanding incorrect?) > > Thx > Karthik > > #-------------------------------------------------------------# > # Demo test for the Watir controller. > # > # Purpose: to demonstrate the following Watir functionality: > # * entering text into a text ffirefoxld, > # * clicking a button, > # * checking to see if a page contains text. > # Test will search Google for the "pickaxe" Ruby book. > #-------------------------------------------------------------# > > # the Watir controller > require "watir-webdriver" > > # set a variable > test_site = "http://www.google.com"; > > # open a firefox instance > firefox = Watir::Browser.new:firefox > > # print some comments > puts "Beginning of test: Google search." > > puts " Step 1: go to the test site: " + test_site > firefox.goto test_site > > puts " Step 2: enter 'pickaxe programming ruby' in the search text > ffirefoxld." > firefox.text_field(:name => 'q').set 'pickaxe programming ruby' > #text_ffirefoxld(:name, "q").set "pickaxe programming ruby" # "q" is the > name of the search ffirefoxld > > puts " Step 3: click the 'Google Search' button." > firefox.button(:name, "btnG").click # "btnG" is the name of the Search > button > > puts " Expected Result:" > puts " A Google page with results should be shown. 'Programming Ruby' > should be high on the list." > > puts " Actual Result:" > if firefox.text.include? "Programming Ruby" > puts " Test Passed. Found the test string: 'Programming Ruby'. Actual > Results match Expected Results." > else > puts " Test Failed! Could not find: 'Programming Ruby'." > end > puts "body is "+firefox.text #This returns Sign in in firefox! > > puts "End of test: Google search." > > -- > -- > 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/d/optout. > -- -- 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/d/optout.
