Hi gary, can you try this instead:
caps = Selenium::WebDriver::Remote::Capabilities.chrome(chromeOptions:
{detach: true})
On Thursday, November 24, 2016 at 3:15:05 AM UTC-6, gary wrote:
>
> Thanks for your reply Titus, unfortunately that didn't quite work
>
> require 'watir'
> caps = Selenium::WebDriver::Capabilities.chrome(chrome_options: {detach:
> true})
> @b = Watir::Browser.new :chrome, desired_capabilities: caps
> @b.goto('www.google.co.uk')
>
> :in `<main>': uninitialized constant Selenium::WebDriver::Capabilities
> (NameError)
>
> but knowing that it's controlled by the chromedriver has given me an
> option to run scripts in firefox which doesn't close, thanks again, G
>
> On Wednesday, 23 November 2016 15:18:31 UTC, Titus Fortner wrote:
>>
>> You can pass in a chrome_option for detach: true -
>> https://sites.google.com/a/chromium.org/chromedriver/capabilities
>>
>> caps = Selenium::WebDriver::Capabilities.chrome(chrome_options: {detach:
>> true})
>> Watir::Browser.new :chrome, desired_capabilities: caps
>>
>> When the code exits it sends the command to kill the chromedriver
>> process. If with detatch == true it doesn't force all Chrome browsers
>> opened by that driver to also close. They will of course close if you have
>> your code set to execute `browser.close`.
>>
>> On Wed, Nov 23, 2016 at 8:04 AM, 'gary' via Watir General <
>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> hi again,
>>> I'm now running on the latest for everything, with thanks to Titus and
>>> Alex. Ruby 2.6.8 & watir v6.
>>> I have noticed that whenever my scripts error the browser now closes
>>> automajically. This is handy if I'm running multiple scripts over night for
>>> example (even though I had a way to deal with that) but it makes it tricky
>>> on script creation.
>>> If I run a script which fails part way through lets say on an object
>>> which is missing. I would usually be on the correct page so can easily
>>> identify the missing object, update my script, re run, and carry on. Now
>>> the browser closes so I then have to navigate to the same page outside of
>>> my script which can take quite a while, especially when creating new
>>> scripts.
>>> Is there a way to allow the script to fail but keep the browser open
>>> where the script ended?
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> G
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