WATIR is my new toy

[elfs]

FireWatir is a utility that runs on your client platform, invokes your browser and operates it via remote control. Using a very simple domain language describing the DOM tree, one can drive a web application. It's unbelievably trivial to use:

 $page.text_field(:id, 'field_username').set("user")
 $page.text_field(:id, 'field_password').set("badpassword")
 $page.button(:id, 'button_submit').click
 assert(($page.title =~ /Login/) != nil,
      "You went somewhere other than the Login page-- that's bad.")
 $page.text_field(:id, 'field_username').set("user")
 $page.text_field(:id, 'field_password').set("goodpassword")
 $page.button(:id, 'button_submit').click
 assert(($page.title =~ /Your Page/) != nil,
      "You went somewhere other than the Your Page page-- that's bad.")
 

Holy frack. How the hell did I ever live before? A scripted driver just to take me to the page where the interaction goes sour takes so much of the boring routine crap of my daily life and automates it. I just sit back and watch the machine do the work.

It totally makes my life easy.

Comments

[fallenpegasus]

You will have to show me more...