Comments on: Installing Ruby on Windows and Setting up Watir on Windows

By: scott

scott — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 03:40:12 +0000

I used InstantRails. I’m pretty sure it was Rails 2.1.

By: Frank Beard

Frank Beard — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 01:57:41 +0000

How did you install Rails in Windows? InstantRails, RailsStack, manually??? Did you get Rails 2.1.0 installed or an older version?

Thank you, again, for your insights.

By: Scott Motte

Scott Motte — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 05:46:14 +0000

hmm. It could be a few things, but my first guess is it might be cygwin. I had a lot of problems with it. I didn’t mention it in the post, but I actually ended up uninstalling it and just learning how to use the windows dos commands.

Your script worked great.

Here’s what I used adapted from your script on my mac.

require ‘rubygems’
require ’safariwatir’ # use watir gem

test_site = ‘http://www.google.com’ # set a variable
ie = Watir::Safari.new # open the IE browser
ie.goto(test_site) # load url, go to site
ie.text_field(:name, “q”).set(”pickaxe”) # load text “pickaxe” into search field named “q”
ie.button(:name, “btnG”).click # “btnG” is the name of the Search button, click it

if ie.text.include?(”Programming Ruby”)
puts “Test Passed. Found the test string: ‘Programming Ruby’.”
else
puts “Test Failed! Could not find: ‘Programming Ruby’”
end

By: Frank Beard

Frank Beard — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 03:48:13 +0000

Scott,

Thank you for the mind dump.

It was all good until I tried to test watir.

I ran the following script….

# Here we see a very simple WATIR script to drive to google (testgoogle.rb) and validate a page

require ‘rubygems’
require ‘watir’ # use watir gem
test_site = ‘http://www.google.com’ # set a variable
ie = Watir::IE.new # open the IE browser
ie.goto(test_site) # load url, go to site
ie.text_field(:name, “q”).set(”pickaxe”) # load text “pickaxe” into search field named “q”
ie.button(:name, “btnG”).click # “btnG” is the name of the Search button, click it

if ie.text.include?(”Programming Ruby”)
puts “Test Passed. Found the test string: ‘Programming Ruby’.”
else
puts “Test Failed! Could not find: ‘Programming Ruby’”
end

… and got this error:

$ ruby testgoogle.rb

/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/watir-1.5.6/./watir/win32.rb:9:in `initialize’: LoadLibrary: \usr\lib\ruby\gems\1.8\gems\wat
ir-1.5.6\watir\IEDialog\Release\IEDialog.dll (RuntimeError)
from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/watir-1.5.6/./watir/win32.rb:9:in `new’
from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/watir-1.5.6/./watir/win32.rb:9
from /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:27:in `gem_original_require’
from /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:27:in `require’
from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/watir-1.5.6/./watir.rb:85
from /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:32:in `gem_original_require’
from /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:32:in `require’
from testw.rb:2

Any ideas on how to fix that?

Thanks!

Frank