Well firstly you would need Ruby for the iPad, and I don't know if such a beast exists, and if it does how good it is. ( Not owning an iPad, I'm not interested enough to research this.. google is your friend, have fun ;-) let us know if you find anything promising)
After that you'd likely need to run SafariWatir but I don't know if the iPad safari is close enough to the Mac version to work with it. as far as I know, nobody has tried this yet. Watir would not work of course because it drives IE, and it will be a pretty cold day in hell before apple & MS conspire to create an IE browser for the iPad. You Might (again depending on how good the ruby environment for the iPad is) be able to use something like Watir-webdriver and run it against Opera or Firefox, both of which I believe had iPad versions, but I'm not sure how well that would work or if the webdriver drivers for those browsers would work on the iPad. (personally, given what a security sieve Safari is, if I had an iPad, I think I'd take a hard look at Firefox or Opera as a browser on that device anyway, so looking into at least part of that might be good for you in terms of finding a good safe browser to surf with.) Even presuming all that worked, I'm not sure the iPad's multitasking capabilities (or lack thereof) are up to running all that stuff at the same time. As far as I understand it, people developing stuff to run on iPads often use emulators to simulate the ipad, and most of their test tools run on the host OS in parallel with the emulator software, I suspect in large part due to multitasking restrictions on the iPad itself (at least the initial generation) On Nov 21, 6:07 am, Patrick <patrick.rawli...@gmail.com> wrote: > Is it possible to take existing Watir scripts that run on a webbrowser > and have them run on an Ipad? I guess I'm wondering if you can > install Ruby and the watir-webdriver gems on an Ipad. > > If anyone has successfully done this I'd love to hear about it. > > Thanks, > > Patrick -- 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
