From: Jim Weirich <jim@...>
Date: 2005-01-14T10:15:52+09:00
Subject: Re: Web Testing in Ruby

On Thursday 13 January 2005 05:11 pm, JonathanKohl wrote:
> Watir just had a version 1.0 release last week, and plans are underway
> to make it drive other web browsers than just Internet Explorer. To get
> an idea of how Watir works, the first version of user guide is here:
> http://wtr.rubyforge.org/watir_user_guide.html
> Disclaimer: I'm a contributor to Watir.

I just stumbled across watir from a posting on Brian Maricks blog and am 
considering using it at work where having IE available isn't an issue.

But I'm running Linux at home and a non-IE solution would be great.  Have you 
considered writing a ruby-based browser skeleton?  Just enough browser to 
request web pages and give information to your browser controller software.  
Actually rendering wouldn't be necessary (I think). It would be quite useful.

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