firewatir

= Watir

Watir, pronounced water, is an open-source (BSD) family of Ruby libraries for automating web browsers. It supports your app no matter what technology it is developed in. They support Internet Explorer on Windows, Firefox and Chrome on Windows, Mac and Linux and Safari on Mac.

Project Home:: http://watir.com Source Code:: http://github.com/bret/watir Support:: http://watir.com/support Gem:: https://rubygems.org/gems/watir Gem:: https://rubygems.org/gems/firewatir Gem:: https://rubygems.org/gems/commonwatir Gem:: https://rubygems.org/gems/safariwatir Gem:: https://rubygems.org/gems/watir-webdriver Gem:: https://rubygems.org/gems/celerity

== Install

You have to install Ruby and RubyGems first. To be able to drive Firefox you have to install Firefox add-on. Detailed installation instructions are at http://watir.com/installation

=== Windows

To install Internet Explorer and Firefox driver:

gem update --system gem install watir

=== Mac

To install Firefox driver:

sudo gem update --system sudo gem install firewatir

To install Safari driver, you have to install Xcode first and then:

sudo gem install rb-appscript sudo gem install safariwatir

=== Linux

To install Firefox driver:

sudo gem update --system sudo gem install firewatir

== Examples

Some examples from http://watir.com/examples

Loading Watir gem to drive Internet Explorer on Windows

require 'watir'

Loading FireWatir gem to drive Firefox on Windows/Mac/Linux

require 'firewatir'

Starting a new browser & and going to our site

browser = Watir::Browser.new browser.goto("http://bit.ly/watir-example")

Setting a text field

browser.text_field(:name => "entry.0.single").set "Watir"

Setting a multi-line text box

browser.text_field(:name => "entry.1.single").set "I come here from Australia. \n The weather is great here."

Setting and clearing a radio button

browser.radio(:value => "Watir").set browser.radio(:value => "Watir").clear

Setting and clearing check boxes

browser.checkbox(:value => "Ruby").set browser.checkbox(:value => "Python").set browser.checkbox(:value => "Python").clear

Clicking a button

browser.button(:name => "logon").click

Clearing, getting and selecting selection list values

browser.select_list(:name => "entry.6.single").clear puts browser.select_list(:name => "entry.6.single").options browser.select_list(:name => "entry.6.single").select "Chrome"

Clicking a button

browser.button(:name => "submit").click

Checking for text in a page

puts browser.text.include?("Your response has been recorded.")

Checking the title of a page

puts browser.title == "Thanks!"