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On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 12:50 PM, Chuck van der Linden <sqa...@gmail.com> wrote:
> No worries for the hijack..
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> I was responding to "I guess I'm wondering if you can
> install Ruby and the watir-webdriver gems on an Ipad. "
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> 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
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>> On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 11:48 AM, Chuck van der Linden <sqa...@gmail.com> 
>> wrote:
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>> > 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)
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>> > 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.
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>> > 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.
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>> > 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.
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>> > (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.)
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>> > 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.
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>> > 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)
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>> > 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.
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>> >> If anyone has successfully done this I'd love to hear about it.
>>
>> >> Thanks,
>>
>> >> Patrick
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