From: Siep Korteling <s.korteling@...>
Date: 2008-01-24T07:35:46+09:00
Subject: Re: using ruby to validate web pages

lrlebron@gmail.com wrote:
> On Jan 18, 8:54 am, Kate Bond <bondk...@googlemail.com> wrote:
>> url1 = "http://www.google.com"
>> ie.text_field(:id, "uri").set(url1)
>>         end
>>     puts "URL#2 validates!"
>>
>>
>> I get results for URL's #2 and #3, only the 'Checking URL....' and 'End
>> of validation' messages.
> 
> Your are missing the "puts" before the "URL # does not validate"

If you had 200 pages to validate, you'd have to correct 200 lines of 
code.
Consider this (untested, I don't know Watir):

require 'watir'

# set variables
validator = "http://validator.w3.org/"
urls =[]
urls << "http://www.google.com"
urls << "http://pingmag.jp/2008/01/17/chimpom/"
urls << "http://www.google.com/"

# open the IE browser
ie = Watir::IE.new
puts "Beginning validation"
ie.goto validator # maybe this should be in the block.

urls.each do|url|
  puts "Checking " + url
  ie.text_field(:id, "uri").set(url)
  ie.button(:value, "Check").click
  if ie.text.include? "This Page Is Valid"
    puts url + " validates!"
  else
    url + " does not validate!" #!! This line needs a 'puts' !!
  end
end
ie.close #or something like it
puts "End of validation"

Both the the list of urls and the code handling this list are now much 
easier to maintain.

Regards,

Siep



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