Thanks again for everyone's response but what I'm doing is sufficient for my needs. I was curious to see how (or if) anyone else was doing this differently. My needs are to be able to switch between Watir versions easily. Example: I test one of my scripts on v1.7.0 and it fails. I switch back to v1.6.2 and run it to see if it's still OK or if something else is going on. I don't want to change my scripts (unless it is explicitly required - i.e. different watir wait method, etc.).
Generally, this is how I set it up. Install ruby git init (in c:\ruby) git add git commit git checkout -b v1.6.2 gem install watir -v1.6.2 git add git commit git checkout master git checkout -b v1.6.7 gem install watir -v1.6.7 git add git commit run test.rb Now - If test.rb fails on v1.6.7, I can go back and verify that it still runs on v1.6.2 with: git checkout v1.6.2 run test.rb Maybe this methodology can help someone else. This is only a temporary requirement until I get all of the scripts checked out on the latest stable (for my scripts) version of Watir. --Darryl On Mar 30, 3:02 pm, Adam Reed <reed.a...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'll admit my reply was more of a response to the first comment than > the original issue, but I would agree with the explicit versioning > comment unless for some reason you wanted to uninstall your gem and > install a specific version for each test: > > gem uninstall watir > gem install watir -v 1.6.5 > etc. > > On Mar 30, 1:58 pm, Dmitriy Korobskiy <dkro...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > How about using Gem to specify explicit versioning, something along > > these lines: > > >http://docs.rubygems.org/read/chapter/4 > > > Just a thought... > > > -- > > DK > > AIM: DKroot1, Skype: DKroot > > > On 3/30/11 2:49 PM, Darryl Brown wrote: > > > > RVM is a Ruby version manager. I'm trying to find out if there is a > > > better way to manage multiple versions of Watir. Using Git with a > > > branch for each version is working. Are you guys suggesting that I > > > should manage multiple instances of Ruby with each one having a unique > > > version of Watir?? -or- am I missing something? > > > > Darryl > > > > On Mar 30, 2:32 pm, Adam Reed<reed.a...@gmail.com> wrote: > > >> Also see pik for Windows (I believe it's linked from RVM's site as > > >> well): > > > >>https://github.com/vertiginous/pik/ > > > >> Adam > > > >> On Mar 30, 1:23 pm, Tim Koopmans<tim.ko...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > >>> Rvm ? > > >>> Regards, > > >>> Tim > > >>> Sent from my mobile ... > > >>> On 31/03/2011, at 12:39 AM, Darryl Brown<d-l-br...@roadrunner.com> > > >>> wrote: > > >>>> Hello All, > > >>>> We are currently using Git branches to manage multiple versions of > > >>>> Watir. Our base scripts were all created with 1.6.2 and we're > > >>>> transitioning to the newer versions and testing along the way. Start > > >>>> out with master branch that does that does not have Watir. Then from > > >>>> master, checkout -b 1.6.2; then 1.6.7, 1.7.0 etc. and install the > > >>>> versions. Now we can easily switch versions. My question - is there a > > >>>> different / better way to accomplish this? > > >>>> Thanks, > > >>>> Darryl > > >>>> -- > > >>>> Before posting, please readhttp://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 -- 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
