One more thing. I don't find it appropriate of adding page-object under watir organization in GitHub. Why? Because page-object is not watir-specific gem, but it is watir and selenium specific. That's one of the reasons i'm not planning to add my own page object gem under watir organization either. I would vote for it only if Jeff would split that gem up into 3 separate gems - page-object, page-object-selenium and page-object-watir. page-object-watir could be located under watir organization, because it is watir-specific. Any thoughts on that distinction?
Just my two cents. J. On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 5:15 PM, Jarmo <jarm...@gmail.com> wrote: > I have to admit that i haven't used Jeff's gem, but have looked at its > source code some time ago. One thing that scares me with his gem is that it > seems like a whole new and big framework built on top of watir/selenium > having a quite complex API (in my opinion) and codebase. On the other hand > i'm on the verge of releasing my own page-object gem, which i have been > using in my own projects. Its main goals are really simple API (really easy > learning curve) and supporting of all possible frameworks - > watir-webdriver, watir-classic, selenium, capybara, whatever. And the total > codebase is ~100 lines. That might sound that it has a lot of less > functionality and maybe you're right, but i tend to like systems which are > easier to understand. > > I'm not trying to say that this means everyone should prefer one to > another and that complex systems are definitely less good, but i'm trying > to say that instead of declaring something as a de facto standard we should > rather give users a choice between multiple ones. > > Having said that i have also "revise watir readme" in my todo list where i > would list all the relevant gems in its readme. > > Jarmo > > On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 3:35 PM, Željko Filipin > <zeljko.fili...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> What do you think about adding page-object gem[1] to watir project? >> >> I have used it in a few projects for clients and I can not imagine using >> watir without page-object gem anymore. >> >> I have talked with Jeff Morgan, gem creator, and he said: "i am >> interested". >> >> If we vote "yes", nothing much would change. We would note somewhere on >> watir.com that page-object gem is part of the project, and we would add >> the gem to watir organization[2] at github. I think the license[3] is >> compatible. >> >> If we make it happen, I think that would be a step in the right >> direction. I think the time has come, watir project should really have a >> page object gem. >> >> What do you think? >> >> Željko >> -- >> [1] https://github.com/cheezy/page-object >> [2] https://github.com/watir >> [3] https://github.com/cheezy/page-object/blob/master/LICENSE >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wtr-development mailing list >> Wtr-development@rubyforge.org >> http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/wtr-development >> > >
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