Re: [wtr-general] Trying to go back to watir 1.6.2, won't install correctly
On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 9:29 PM, Lisa Crispin
wrote:
> I know, I had uninstalled Ruby 1.8.7 because the require 'watir' kept
failing, and installed Ruby 1.8.6, but now the install of watir won't work.
Is there a reason not to install ruby 1.9.3?
Ruby 1.8.6 probably has rubygems version so old that it can not be updated
with "gem update --system"
If you really like 1.8.6 take a look how I updated it on Mac, it should be
similar on Windows ("RubyGems on 10.5" chapter):
https://github.com/zeljkofilipin/watirbook/blob/master/installation/mac.md
> When I typed "gem install watir" in Ruby 1.8.7, I got Watir 2. I don't
want Watir 2, I want 1.6.2.
For instructions on how to install an older version of watir:
- go to https://rubygems.org/gems/watir
- click link "Show all versions (43 total)" (at the bottom of the page)
- click the version you like (1.6.2)
- page with instructions how to install that version will appear
In short:
gem install watir -v 1.6.2
Feel free to ping me on skype/gtalk/irc, it would probably be faster to
debug the problem that way.
Željko
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Re: [wtr-general] Trying to go back to watir 1.6.2, won't install correctly
I know, I had uninstalled Ruby 1.8.7 because the require 'watir' kept failing, and installed Ruby 1.8.6, but now the install of watir won't work. When I typed "gem install watir" in Ruby 1.8.7, I got Watir 2. I don't want Watir 2, I want 1.6.2. Will that just happen by magic? I know I can just try it, but I'm getting really tired of uninstalling and installing things. thanks, Lisa On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 6:28 PM, Željko Filipin wrote: > On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 7:10 PM, Lisa Crispin > wrote: > > I get *** LOCAL GEMS *** > > If it does not list watir gem there, then you do not have it installed. > Try running this again: > > gem install watir > > Željko > > -- > Before posting, please read http://watir.com/support. In short: search > before you ask, be nice. > > watir-general@googlegroups.com > http://groups.google.com/group/watir-general > watir-general+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > -- Lisa Crispin Co-author with Janet Gregory, _Agile Testing: A Practical Guide for Testers and Agile Teams_ (Addison-Wesley 2009) Contributor to _Beautiful Testing_ (O'Reilly 2009) http://lisacrispin.com @lisacrispin on Twitter http://entaggle.com/lisacrispin -- Before posting, please read http://watir.com/support. In short: search before you ask, be nice. watir-general@googlegroups.com http://groups.google.com/group/watir-general watir-general+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com
Re: [wtr-general] Trying to go back to watir 1.6.2, won't install correctly
On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 7:10 PM, Lisa Crispin wrote: > I get *** LOCAL GEMS *** If it does not list watir gem there, then you do not have it installed. Try running this again: gem install watir Željko -- Before posting, please read http://watir.com/support. In short: search before you ask, be nice. watir-general@googlegroups.com http://groups.google.com/group/watir-general watir-general+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com
Re: [wtr-general] Trying to go back to watir 1.6.2, won't install correctly
I get *** LOCAL GEMS *** On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 6:08 PM, Željko Filipin wrote: > 2012/2/16 Lisa Crispin > > I still get the same error. > > What do you get if you execute this in the command line? > > gem list watir > > Željko > > -- > Before posting, please read http://watir.com/support. In short: search > before you ask, be nice. > > watir-general@googlegroups.com > http://groups.google.com/group/watir-general > watir-general+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > -- Lisa Crispin Co-author with Janet Gregory, _Agile Testing: A Practical Guide for Testers and Agile Teams_ (Addison-Wesley 2009) Contributor to _Beautiful Testing_ (O'Reilly 2009) http://lisacrispin.com @lisacrispin on Twitter http://entaggle.com/lisacrispin -- Before posting, please read http://watir.com/support. In short: search before you ask, be nice. watir-general@googlegroups.com http://groups.google.com/group/watir-general watir-general+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com
Re: [wtr-general] Trying to go back to watir 1.6.2, won't install correctly
2012/2/16 Lisa Crispin > I still get the same error. What do you get if you execute this in the command line? gem list watir Željko -- Before posting, please read http://watir.com/support. In short: search before you ask, be nice. watir-general@googlegroups.com http://groups.google.com/group/watir-general watir-general+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com
Re: [wtr-general] Trying to go back to watir 1.6.2, won't install correctly
My next bright idea was to uninstall ruby 1.8.7 and try installing 1.8.6, which is what works on my old pc. That seemed to install ok, but when I do gem update --system, I get an error "ERROR: While executing gem ... (Gem::RemoteSourceException) HTTP response 302 Is there a different way to install watir 1.6.2 with ruby 1.8.6? I have looked at the archived emails on this and they say to do gem update --system and then gem install watir-1.6.2.gem. But neither of those works for me now. They did work, with ruby 1.8.7, but require 'watir' doesn't work with ruby 1.8.7 for me. -- Lisa 2012/2/16 Lisa Crispin > Also, I tried putting the gems folder in my Path variable, someone > suggested that to me on Twitter, that doesn't help either. > > > 2012/2/16 Lisa Crispin > >> I didn't have to do that on my other machine, but what the heck, I tried >> adding require 'rubygems'. Here's a snippet of my code where the requires >> are: >> require 'test/unit' >> require 'rubygems' >> require 'watir' >> >> It doesn't help. I still get the same error. I read that page in your >> book, but it looks like I'm doing what you suggest there. >> >> Other ideas? >> thanks >> Lisa >> >> >> On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 5:07 PM, Željko Filipin > > wrote: >> >>> Hi Lisa, >>> >>> comments are inline. >>> >>> Željko >>> >>> >>> On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 6:03 PM, Lisa Crispin >>> wrote: >>> > I uninstalled whatever Ruby that was, and installed ruby 1.8.7 instead. >>> >>> Is there a reason for using ruby 1.8.7.? I would suggest that you >>> install ruby 1.9.3. >>> >>> > However, when I try to run a script, I get an error 'require': no such >>> file to load -- watir (LoadError). >>> >>> This usually happens when your ruby installation does not require >>> rubygems by default. Try adding this to the top of the file: >>> >>> require "rubygems" >>> >>> By the way, I wrote about that problem in the book: >>> >>> >>> https://github.com/zeljkofilipin/watirbook/blob/master/watir-in-five-minutes.md >>> >>> Željko >>> >>> -- >>> Before posting, please read http://watir.com/support. In short: search >>> before you ask, be nice. >>> >>> watir-general@googlegroups.com >>> http://groups.google.com/group/watir-general >>> watir-general+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Lisa Crispin >> Co-author with Janet Gregory, _Agile Testing: A Practical Guide for >> Testers and Agile Teams_ (Addison-Wesley 2009) >> Contributor to _Beautiful Testing_ (O'Reilly 2009) >> http://lisacrispin.com >> @lisacrispin on Twitter >> http://entaggle.com/lisacrispin >> >> > > > -- > Lisa Crispin > Co-author with Janet Gregory, _Agile Testing: A Practical Guide for > Testers and Agile Teams_ (Addison-Wesley 2009) > Contributor to _Beautiful Testing_ (O'Reilly 2009) > http://lisacrispin.com > @lisacrispin on Twitter > http://entaggle.com/lisacrispin > > -- Lisa Crispin Co-author with Janet Gregory, _Agile Testing: A Practical Guide for Testers and Agile Teams_ (Addison-Wesley 2009) Contributor to _Beautiful Testing_ (O'Reilly 2009) http://lisacrispin.com @lisacrispin on Twitter http://entaggle.com/lisacrispin -- Before posting, please read http://watir.com/support. In short: search before you ask, be nice. watir-general@googlegroups.com http://groups.google.com/group/watir-general watir-general+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com
Re: [wtr-general] Trying to go back to watir 1.6.2, won't install correctly
Also, I tried putting the gems folder in my Path variable, someone suggested that to me on Twitter, that doesn't help either. 2012/2/16 Lisa Crispin > I didn't have to do that on my other machine, but what the heck, I tried > adding require 'rubygems'. Here's a snippet of my code where the requires > are: > require 'test/unit' > require 'rubygems' > require 'watir' > > It doesn't help. I still get the same error. I read that page in your > book, but it looks like I'm doing what you suggest there. > > Other ideas? > thanks > Lisa > > > On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 5:07 PM, Željko Filipin > wrote: > >> Hi Lisa, >> >> comments are inline. >> >> Željko >> >> >> On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 6:03 PM, Lisa Crispin >> wrote: >> > I uninstalled whatever Ruby that was, and installed ruby 1.8.7 instead. >> >> Is there a reason for using ruby 1.8.7.? I would suggest that you install >> ruby 1.9.3. >> >> > However, when I try to run a script, I get an error 'require': no such >> file to load -- watir (LoadError). >> >> This usually happens when your ruby installation does not require >> rubygems by default. Try adding this to the top of the file: >> >> require "rubygems" >> >> By the way, I wrote about that problem in the book: >> >> >> https://github.com/zeljkofilipin/watirbook/blob/master/watir-in-five-minutes.md >> >> Željko >> >> -- >> Before posting, please read http://watir.com/support. In short: search >> before you ask, be nice. >> >> watir-general@googlegroups.com >> http://groups.google.com/group/watir-general >> watir-general+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com >> > > > > -- > Lisa Crispin > Co-author with Janet Gregory, _Agile Testing: A Practical Guide for > Testers and Agile Teams_ (Addison-Wesley 2009) > Contributor to _Beautiful Testing_ (O'Reilly 2009) > http://lisacrispin.com > @lisacrispin on Twitter > http://entaggle.com/lisacrispin > > -- Lisa Crispin Co-author with Janet Gregory, _Agile Testing: A Practical Guide for Testers and Agile Teams_ (Addison-Wesley 2009) Contributor to _Beautiful Testing_ (O'Reilly 2009) http://lisacrispin.com @lisacrispin on Twitter http://entaggle.com/lisacrispin -- Before posting, please read http://watir.com/support. In short: search before you ask, be nice. watir-general@googlegroups.com http://groups.google.com/group/watir-general watir-general+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com
Re: [wtr-general] Trying to go back to watir 1.6.2, won't install correctly
I didn't have to do that on my other machine, but what the heck, I tried adding require 'rubygems'. Here's a snippet of my code where the requires are: require 'test/unit' require 'rubygems' require 'watir' It doesn't help. I still get the same error. I read that page in your book, but it looks like I'm doing what you suggest there. Other ideas? thanks Lisa On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 5:07 PM, Željko Filipin wrote: > Hi Lisa, > > comments are inline. > > Željko > > > On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 6:03 PM, Lisa Crispin > wrote: > > I uninstalled whatever Ruby that was, and installed ruby 1.8.7 instead. > > Is there a reason for using ruby 1.8.7.? I would suggest that you install > ruby 1.9.3. > > > However, when I try to run a script, I get an error 'require': no such > file to load -- watir (LoadError). > > This usually happens when your ruby installation does not require rubygems > by default. Try adding this to the top of the file: > > require "rubygems" > > By the way, I wrote about that problem in the book: > > > https://github.com/zeljkofilipin/watirbook/blob/master/watir-in-five-minutes.md > > Željko > > -- > Before posting, please read http://watir.com/support. In short: search > before you ask, be nice. > > watir-general@googlegroups.com > http://groups.google.com/group/watir-general > watir-general+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > -- Lisa Crispin Co-author with Janet Gregory, _Agile Testing: A Practical Guide for Testers and Agile Teams_ (Addison-Wesley 2009) Contributor to _Beautiful Testing_ (O'Reilly 2009) http://lisacrispin.com @lisacrispin on Twitter http://entaggle.com/lisacrispin -- Before posting, please read http://watir.com/support. In short: search before you ask, be nice. watir-general@googlegroups.com http://groups.google.com/group/watir-general watir-general+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com
Re: [wtr-general] Trying to go back to watir 1.6.2, won't install correctly
Hi Lisa, comments are inline. Željko On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 6:03 PM, Lisa Crispin wrote: > I uninstalled whatever Ruby that was, and installed ruby 1.8.7 instead. Is there a reason for using ruby 1.8.7.? I would suggest that you install ruby 1.9.3. > However, when I try to run a script, I get an error 'require': no such file to load -- watir (LoadError). This usually happens when your ruby installation does not require rubygems by default. Try adding this to the top of the file: require "rubygems" By the way, I wrote about that problem in the book: https://github.com/zeljkofilipin/watirbook/blob/master/watir-in-five-minutes.md Željko -- Before posting, please read http://watir.com/support. In short: search before you ask, be nice. watir-general@googlegroups.com http://groups.google.com/group/watir-general watir-general+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com
[wtr-general] Trying to go back to watir 1.6.2, won't install correctly
I've thrown in the towel on trying to upgrade to Watir 2.0. I uninstalled whatever Ruby that was, and installed ruby 1.8.7 instead. I installed the ruby dev kit. I did a gem update --system. I did a gem install watir -v 1.6.2 and that appeared to work ok, at least, I didn't get any errors. However, when I try to run a script, I get an error 'require': no such file to load -- watir (LoadError). I googled on that error and found another way to install, which I tried - gem install watir-1.6.2.gem --local (I first downloaded the watir-1.6.2.gem). But that doesn't help. I still get the same error. I get it that it's crazy to be asking this question years after 1.6.2 was released. I just want to be able to keep using my many Watir scripts on my new Windows box. I'm still running them fine on my old Windows box, which has Ruby 1.8.6 and Watir 1.6.2, but that box has to go away. If I can't get this working, I'm just going to have to give up entirely and sacrifice many years investment in these scripts (they were written 2004 - 2006 and I have maintained them ever since). They are valuable to me, but I don't know what else to try. Y'all would probably be just as happy to not having me asking stupid questions on this list anymore, but I thought I'd give it one more shot. We don't use Watir for regression tests, we use Canoo WebTest and, recently adopted, Se/Webdriver with a Geb framework. I suppose eventually we could build up new scripts that do what our Watir scripts do in Se/Webdriver, but since I'm the only person on the team that likes to semi-automate my manual exploratory testing, that probably ain't gonna happen. Only I am feeling this pain. Which teaches me a valuable lesson about making sure a team REALLY buys into a test driver and framework before adopting it. Do I need to go back to Ruby 1.8.6? I was advised by someone who seemed to know that 1.8.7 would be better even with Watir 1.6.2. Thanks, Lisa -- Lisa Crispin Co-author with Janet Gregory, _Agile Testing: A Practical Guide for Testers and Agile Teams_ (Addison-Wesley 2009) Contributor to _Beautiful Testing_ (O'Reilly 2009) http://lisacrispin.com @lisacrispin on Twitter http://entaggle.com/lisacrispin -- Before posting, please read http://watir.com/support. In short: search before you ask, be nice. watir-general@googlegroups.com http://groups.google.com/group/watir-general watir-general+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com
[wtr-general] Re: download a file to a specific directory in IE 9
So manual works. The paths i'm entering in are valid, i see now reason why this shouldn't be working. Could this be something related to watir 3.0.rc2/rautomation and how it starts the browser? -- Before posting, please read http://watir.com/support. In short: search before you ask, be nice. watir-general@googlegroups.com http://groups.google.com/group/watir-general watir-general+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com
Re: [wtr-general] Is there a wait_while_visible or wait_until_hidden or something similar?
On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 2:46 PM, RJ wrote: > how do I wait until this element disappears or is set to hidden again? This could help: http://watirwebdriver.com/waiting/ Željko -- watir.com/book - author -- Before posting, please read http://watir.com/support. In short: search before you ask, be nice. watir-general@googlegroups.com http://groups.google.com/group/watir-general watir-general+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com
[wtr-general] Re: benefits of using jquery selector
also have you seen Alister Scott's: http://watirmelon.com/2011/08/09/death-to-xpath-and-css-selectors-in-automated-tests/ and Nat Ritmeyer's reply .. gives good coverage of pros & cons of both 'native' vs xpath/css selectors On Feb 17, 5:38 am, RJ wrote: > html element vs jquery selector > > Anybody know if there are any benefits of using one selector method > over the other (for watir-webdriver) - if the element(s) can be > accessed/selected either way? > (assuming that there may be instances when only jquery selector would > work, due to elements being hidden/disabled) > > Thanks -- Before posting, please read http://watir.com/support. In short: search before you ask, be nice. watir-general@googlegroups.com http://groups.google.com/group/watir-general watir-general+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com
[wtr-general] Re: benefits of using jquery selector
Not sure what you mean by this .. can you give an example of each type? On Feb 17, 5:38 am, RJ wrote: > html element vs jquery selector > > Anybody know if there are any benefits of using one selector method > over the other (for watir-webdriver) - if the element(s) can be > accessed/selected either way? > (assuming that there may be instances when only jquery selector would > work, due to elements being hidden/disabled) > > Thanks -- Before posting, please read http://watir.com/support. In short: search before you ask, be nice. watir-general@googlegroups.com http://groups.google.com/group/watir-general watir-general+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com
[wtr-general] Re: Is there a wait_while_visible or wait_until_hidden or something similar?
you use watir-webdriver right? wait_while_present uses present? under the hood which checks exists? && visible? so this should do the trick ... wait_while_present has a timeout parameter which defaults to 30 sec .. is this sufficient? wrap it in a begin rescue & see if you get a TimeoutError ..if so, try .wait_while_present(an integer big enough for your app) Also, browser.div(:id => 'spinner').image(:src => / loading.gif/).wait_while_present is probably more efficient because of the way watir-webdriver locates elements On Feb 17, 7:46 am, RJ wrote: > how do I wait until this element disappears or is set to hidden again? > > > > style="margin-bottom: 1px;"/> > > > > I already tried the following without much success: > > browser.image(:src => /loading.gif/).wait_while_present > AND/OR > browser.div(:id => 'spinner').image(:src => / > loading.gif/).wait_while_present -- Before posting, please read http://watir.com/support. In short: search before you ask, be nice. watir-general@googlegroups.com http://groups.google.com/group/watir-general watir-general+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com
[wtr-general] Is there a wait_while_visible or wait_until_hidden or something similar?
how do I wait until this element disappears or is set to hidden again? I already tried the following without much success: browser.image(:src => /loading.gif/).wait_while_present AND/OR browser.div(:id => 'spinner').image(:src => / loading.gif/).wait_while_present -- Before posting, please read http://watir.com/support. In short: search before you ask, be nice. watir-general@googlegroups.com http://groups.google.com/group/watir-general watir-general+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com
[wtr-general] benefits of using jquery selector
html element vs jquery selector Anybody know if there are any benefits of using one selector method over the other (for watir-webdriver) - if the element(s) can be accessed/selected either way? (assuming that there may be instances when only jquery selector would work, due to elements being hidden/disabled) Thanks -- Before posting, please read http://watir.com/support. In short: search before you ask, be nice. watir-general@googlegroups.com http://groups.google.com/group/watir-general watir-general+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com
