Watir

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1

I been teaching myself Ruby for three months now and
I've needed very Little help until now. I've been
working with text files using strings, array's, hash's
and CSV all with Little problem

Now I've moved onto using the watir gem with no luck.
Unless I open www.yahoo.com or www.google.com I get
frame errors or the code will not exit. Am I just
missing something basic. Code same below.

#ie = Watir::IE.start("http://www.yahoo.com/") #works
#ie = Watir::IE.start("http://tv.yahoo.com/") #no exit
#ie =
Watir::IE.start("http://finance.yahoo.com/")#frame
error
ie = Watir::IE.start("http://www.nascar.com/") #no
exit

Jeff

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2

Umm, did you require watir first?

Like this...

require 'watir'
$ie=Watir::IE.start("http://www.google.com")
$ie.text_field(:index,1).set("watir mailing list")
$ie.button(:value,/Seach/).click

3

require 'watir'
include Watir

ie = IE.new
ie.goto('http://finance.yahoo.com/'\)

This works for me.
Luis

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On Aug 9, 10:44 am, Jeffrey Bowen <ja_bo...@yahoo.com> wrote:

I been teaching myself Ruby for three months now and
I've needed very Little help until now. I've been
working with text files using strings, array's, hash's
and CSV all with Little problem

Now I've moved onto using the watir gem with no luck.
Unless I openwww.yahoo.comorwww.google.comI get
frame errors or the code will not exit. Am I just
missing something basic. Code same below.

#ie = Watir::IE.start("http://www.yahoo.com/&quot;\) #works
#ie = Watir::IE.start("http://tv.yahoo.com/&quot;\) #no exit
#ie =
Watir::IE.start("http://finance.yahoo.com/&quot;\)#frame
error
ie = Watir::IE.start("http://www.nascar.com/&quot;\) #no
exit

Jeff

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4

But it helps if you spell correctly...

mysource.sub!('Seach','Search')

5

Luis,
    Out of curiosity, have you found much advantage to including the
"include Watir" line?
Since it pretty much only saves me having to type "Watir::", and I
only type that once, I almost always omit the include.

--Kyle

6

Thanks I'll check the version I'm running. That's
the only other thing I can think of.

Jeff

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On Aug 9, 10:44 am, Jeffrey Bowen > <ja_bo...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> I been teaching myself Ruby for three months now
and
> I've needed very Little help until now. I've been
> working with text files using strings, array's,
hash's
> and CSV all with Little problem
>
> Now I've moved onto using the watir gem with no
luck.
> Unless I openwww.yahoo.comorwww.google.comI get
> frame errors or the code will not exit. Am I just
> missing something basic. Code same below.
>
> #ie = Watir::IE.start("http://www.yahoo.com/&quot;\)
#works
> #ie = Watir::IE.start("http://tv.yahoo.com/&quot;\) #no
exit
> #ie =
> Watir::IE.start("http://finance.yahoo.com/&quot;\)#frame
> error
> ie = Watir::IE.start("http://www.nascar.com/&quot;\) #no
> exit
>
> Jeff
>
>

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require 'watir'
include Watir

ie = IE.new
ie.goto('http://finance.yahoo.com/&#39;\)

This works for me.
Luis

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7

When writing portable code, it is extremely helpful to include the full
namespace. I try to avoid using the include statement so that the code
is more portable and readable.

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8

That's the only real advantage. Of course in a script this short it is
not very useful. But in a longer script you may save a little time.

Luis

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On Aug 9, 3:58 pm, "Kyle Schmitt" <kyleaschm...@gmail.com> wrote:

Luis,
    Out of curiosity, have you found much advantage to including the
"include Watir" line?
Since it pretty much only saves me having to type "Watir::", and I
only type that once, I almost always omit the include.

--Kyle

9

Jeffrey Bowen wrote:

Thanks I'll check the version I'm running. That's
the only other thing I can think of.

Jeff

This is kind of a side question...

I've used win32ole for kicking off IE before. What the advantage of
using watir, or is there one?

Thanks, Todd

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10

watir provides a nicer interface than useing ie/ole directly
You will also be able to run your code against firefox with only a
minimal number of changes.

Paul

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On Aug 9, 9:31 pm, Todd Burch <pro...@burchwoodusa.com> wrote:

Jeffrey Bowen wrote:
> Thanks I'll check the version I'm running. That's
> the only other thing I can think of.

> Jeff

This is kind of a side question...

I've used win32ole for kicking off IE before. What the advantage of
using watir, or is there one?

Thanks, Todd

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