No worries for the hijack.. I was responding to "I guess I'm wondering if you can install Ruby and the watir-webdriver gems on an Ipad. "
which I didn't take to mean using an emulator. (although I agree for testing purposes, the emulator approach is most likely best. ) It would be interesting to figure out why the iphonedriver doesn't work with watir-webdriver once it gets to the webpage. (what webpage is it going to?) On Nov 21, 10:55 am, bis <bis...@gmail.com> wrote: > I think he meant running them against an iphone/ipad either device or > simulator this can be done with iphonedriver. we actually messed > around with trying to actually get watir-webdriver and the > iphonedriver to work together but it seems that watir-webdriver can > launch the browser and go to the webpage but it cant interact with any > of the elements. > > sorry for the hijack > > On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 11:48 AM, Chuck van der Linden <sqa...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > > > > > > 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 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
