I especially like it as a way to abstract it out for multiple operations. So: Edit Button / Delete Button / Make Default / View Details, etc, etc can all use it. If it was one operation, I'd be likely to make similar use of the parent method as you described.
On Wednesday, July 20, 2016 at 11:43:19 AM UTC-5, Chuck van der Linden wrote: > > On Tuesday, July 19, 2016 at 6:44:36 PM UTC-7, Titus Fortner wrote: >> >> The pattern that I'm assuming Soori is asking about is one I often use >> for lists. Say I have a list of addresses and I want to delete one. >> >> I'll do something like this: >> >> def delete_address(address) >> index = browser.div(id: "address_section").divs(class: >> "address_item").find_index do |div| >> address == construct_address(div) >> end >> browser.div(id: "address_section").button(text: "Delete", index: >> index).click >> end >> >> (where construct address builds an object from what is on the page in a >> way that can be compared to the parameter we have) >> >> >> ah yeah I've had to deal with similar.. usually it depends on the HTML > structure what I do. Often it's just as easy to find the table-row, or > container with the identifier, and use .parent.button(text: > "Delete").click. When that's the case I usually find I like that better. > but sometimes the structure doesn't allow for easy use of parent or > containers because the items and the associated delete button/link don't > share a common container.. so yeah in that case the index trick is a good > way to go. > -- -- 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 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Watir General" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to watir-general+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
