The traditional way to do this would be to create a ticket in the second test 
without going through the browser (so using whatever database ORM/API you 
have), then check you can look it up. This avoids sharing state between the 
tests and creating a dependency between them.

Jon Rowe
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On Wednesday, 17 September 2014 at 6:59, Dan Franko wrote:

> Hello.  I've been struggling with this for quite some time and I'm hoping 
> someone can help out.  The answer is probably right in front of me!  I'm 
> using rspec with watir-webdriver for regression tests and I want to do 
> something simple like create a ticket and then lookup that same ticket in an 
> isolated manner.  Is this possible and what would be the best way to go about 
> it?  I can do this with a differently scoped variable, but that doesn't 
> appear to be the correct way to approach this.  Thanks!
> 
> describe "Ticketing system",:template do
> > before(:all) do
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 
> > > @b = Watir::Browser.start("google.com (http://google.com)",:chrome)
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > 
> 
> > end
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> > it 'can create a ticket' do
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 
> > > @b.link(:text => "Create ticket")
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > 
> 
> > > ticket = @b.div(:id => "ticket").text
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > 
> 
> > > expect(ticket).to eql(123456)
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > 
> 
> > end
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 
> 
> > it 'can lookup a created ticket' do
> > > @b.text_field(:id => "search").set(ticket)
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > 
> 
> > end
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 
> 
> > after(:all) do
> > > @b.close rescue nil
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > 
> 
> > end
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 
> end
> 
> 
> 
> 
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