From: Nick Sieger <nicksieger@...>
Date: 2006-10-25T11:02:37+09:00
Subject: Re: Best way to automate web browser tasks?

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On 10/24/06, Hal Fulton <hal9000@hypermetrics.com> wrote:
>
> I know there's Watir or something... but I'm not using
> IE (rather Firefox) and I don't want to "control the
> browser" per se...
>
> Rather I want to automate some repetitive tasks... like
> go to a form, fill in a couple of fields, click a checkbox,
> pick from a dropdown, and click on Save.
>
> How would you do this?


If I were going to do it in a browser, I'd use Selenium RC [1] along with
the included selenium.rb to do things like this:

|   selenium = Selenium::SeleneseInterpreter.new("localhost", 4444,
"*firefox", "http://www.google.com/", 10000);
|   selenium.start
|   selenium.open "http://www.google.com/"
|   browser.type "name=q", "ruby"
|   browser.click_and_wait "name=btnG"

Cheers,
/Nick

[1] http://www.openqa.org/selenium-rc/

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