I just ran it with webdriver for ie (which is still slow for me, so if 
there is a way to increase the speed, i'm all ears!), and it actually 
closes the browser/server when the button is clicked. 

On Tuesday, September 22, 2015 at 2:45:16 PM UTC-4, Mike Malandra wrote:
>
> Do you mean using watir-webdriver instead of watir-classic? We have not 
> tried that, mainly due to how slow watir-webdriver was for IE the last time 
> I used it (About 7 months ago).
>
> On Monday, September 21, 2015 at 11:38:08 AM UTC-4, Titus Fortner wrote:
>>
>> Have you tried setting the driver to use webdriver? The code shouldn't 
>> need to change much if at all, and the IE Driver is being actively updated.
>> On Sep 21, 2015 9:56 AM, "Mike Malandra" <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Not sure if this helps or matters, but the UI that is breaking is using 
>>> Telerik.
>>>
>>> On Friday, September 18, 2015 at 8:56:57 AM UTC-4, Mike Malandra wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I am using Ruby 2.0.0 with Watir-Classic 4.2.0 on Windows 7 64 bit with 
>>>> IE11.
>>>>
>>>> I have a script that works entirely fine when working with IE8. A 
>>>> button is clicked, the next page loads, and the expected functionality 
>>>> continues until the end of the script.
>>>>
>>>> However, I'm running into an issue when running the same script on a 
>>>> machine with IE11 running with the site in compatibility mode. 
>>>>
>>>> When I click the same button, the entire WATIR process seems to lock 
>>>> up. I eventually get a timeout and the script fails.  Once the script 
>>>> fails, I attempt to maximize the window and take a screenshot. This can 
>>>> take anywhere from 1 minute to 10 minutes after the process locks up 
>>>> (which 
>>>> is not normal, it usually only take a moment to take a screenshot). While 
>>>> this is occurring, I also can not attach to the browser through an IRB 
>>>> session.  The same steps can still be performed manually without issue - I 
>>>> can click the button just fine and the next page loads, so this is an 
>>>> automation only issue.
>>>>
>>>> Another weird part is this is NOT 100% of the time, and occurs on my 
>>>> machine and our webapps with about 80% repeatability. Sometimes the script 
>>>> continues normally, which leads me to believe this is some sort of race 
>>>> condition with compat mode. Even weirder is the fact that my colleague, 
>>>> who 
>>>> has the same system setup as mine, does not run into this issue - though 
>>>> his machine does tend to run slower than mine.
>>>>
>>>> Does anyone have any suggestions for working around this issue? We need 
>>>> to upgrade to IE11 for other scripts, but obviously cannot until we 
>>>> resolve 
>>>> this issue.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks. 
>>>>
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