I am a newbie with ubuntu, I tried and failed several times to install firewatir on ubuntu 10.04, and finally got following codes by google:
sudo su
apt-get install build-essential
apt-get install ruby rdoc libopenssl-ruby
wget http://production.cf.rubygems.org/rubygems/rubygems-1.3.7.tgz
tar zxvf rubygems-1.3.7.tgz
cd rubygems-1.3.7
ruby setup.rb
ln -s /usr/bin/gem1.8 /usr/local/bin/gem
gem install firewatir
Frankly I did not understand the function of the first 2 apt-get, I just copy it for free.
I cannot figure out how to enter the Chinese characters into the textfield of a webpage by firewatir 1.6.5, I tried to change the encoding of the .rb file and the encoding of the firefox browser, but failed.
require ‘rubygems’
require ‘firewatir’
ff = FireWatir::Firefox.new
ff.goto “http://www.google.com“
sleep 1
ff.text_field(:name, ‘q’).set(‘?’)
For Watir 1.6.5, the Chinese charaters can be supported by replacing the script WIN32OLE.codepage = WIN32OLE::CP_UTF8 with WIN32OLE.codepage = WIN32OLE::CP_ACP in the file of C:\Ruby\lib\ruby\gems\1.8\gems\watir-1.6.5\lib\watir\win32ole.rb
We can check the version of the watir and firewatir by executing an rb file with the following script:
require ‘watir’
require ‘firewatir’
puts Watir::IE::VERSION
puts FireWatir::Firefox::VERSION
Maybe it is safe to add the code of require ‘rubygems’ in the beginning of the watir codes, otherwise, strange results may happen sometimes .
Just copy a coding found in the internet for future reference,
$ie.divs.collect {|div|
if div.class_name == “data”
puts div.text
end
}
It is quite slow to fill a text field by ie.text_field().set(content), the fast way is by ie.text_field().value = content.