# watir/browser require 'watir/options' module Watir =begin rdoc Watir is a family of open-source drivers for automating web browsers. You can use it to write tests that are easy to read and maintain. Watir drives browsers the same way people do. It clicks links, fills in forms, presses buttons. Watir also checks results, such as whether expected text appears on a page. The Watir family currently includes support for Internet Explorer (on Windows), Firefox (on Windows, Mac and Linux) and Safari (on Mac). Project Homepage: http://wtr.rubyforge.org This Browser module provides a generic interface that tests can use to access any browser. The actual browser (and thus the actual Watir driver) is determined at runtime based on configuration settings. require 'watir' browser = Watir::Browser.new browser.goto 'http://google.com' browser.text_field(:name, 'q').set 'pickaxe' browser.button(:name, 'btnG').click if browser.text.include? 'Programming Ruby' puts 'Text was found' else puts 'Text was not found' end A comprehensive summary of the Watir API can be found here http://wiki.openqa.org/display/WTR/Methods+supported+by+Element There are two ways to configure the browser that will be used by your tests. One is to set the +watir_browser+ environment variable to +ie+ or +firefox+. (How you do this depends on your platform.) The other is to create a file that looks like this. browser: ie And then to add this line to your script, after the require statement and before you invoke Browser.new. Watir.options_file = 'path/to/the/file/you/just/created' =end rdoc module Browser @@browser_classes = {} @@sub_options = {} @@default = nil class << self # Create a new instance of a browser driver, as determined by the # configuration settings. (Don't be fooled: this is not actually # an instance of Browser class.) def new set_sub_options klass.new end # Create a new instance as with #new and start the browser on the # specified url. def start url set_sub_options klass.start url end def klass key = Watir.options[:browser] eval @@browser_classes[key] # this triggers the autoload end private :klass # Add support for the browser option, using the specified class, # provided as a string. Optionally, additional options supported by # the class can be specified as an array of symbols. Options specified # by the user and included in this list will be passed (as a hash) to # the set_options class method (if defined) before creating an instance. def support hash_args option = hash_args[:name] class_string = hash_args[:class] additional_options = hash_args[:options] library = hash_args[:library] gem = hash_args[:gem] || library @@browser_classes[option] = class_string @@sub_options[option] = additional_options autoload class_string, library activate_gem gem, option end def autoload class_string, library mod, klass = class_string.split('::') eval "module ::#{mod}; autoload :#{klass}, '#{library}'; end" end # Activate the gem (if installed). The default browser will be set # to the first gem that activates. def activate_gem gem_name, option begin gem gem_name @@default ||= option rescue Gem::LoadError end end def default @@default end # Specifies a default browser. Must be specified before options are parsed. def default= option @@default = option end def options @@browser_classes.keys end def set_sub_options return unless defined?(klass.set_options) sub_options = @@sub_options[Watir.options[:browser]] specified_options = Watir.options.reject {|k, v| !sub_options.include? k} klass.set_options specified_options end end end end require 'watir/browsers'