= 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!"