From: Ben Weeks <bweeks@...>
Date: 2008-02-05T07:44:27+09:00
Subject: Re: how to handle java script pop ups ??

If you want to do a fair amount of hacking you could try playing
around with ruby-spidermonkey, it's a bunch of ruby bindings for
firefox's javascript interpreter, (code named SpiderMonkey.)

http://code.google.com/p/ruby-spidermonkey/

Aside from that, I've had a hard time finding good support for JS in
ruby.  Maybe somebody on the board has had better results?

On Feb 4, 2008 4:46 PM, 7stud -- <bbxx789_05ss@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Pradeepta Swain wrote:
> > How can I access java script pop ups using ruby ? I want to access the
> > alert message as well as click the button of pop up boxes . How can I do
> > that ? Anybody help ??
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> I don't think you can.  javascript is part of a software program
> variously named: IE, Firefox, Safari, etc. that executes on a user's
> computer.  It's hard to tell what type of program that you want to use
> to control the javascript execution:
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> 1) A program running on the user's computer where the web browser is
> executing the javascript
> 2) a program on a remote server.
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> With 2), you can't affect something that is executing in the user's
> browser.  A program on a server can decide what to send to the client
> browser, but once the client browser starts executing the javascript,
> the javascript program decides what will happen from then on--not your
> program on the server.
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> With 1), I think it is probably possible, but you would have to somehow
> use ruby to control how a software program is executing, i.e. the
> browser.  That would require that your ruby program open communication
> with the browser and then use it's API to affect how the browser
> executes the javascript.   I doubt whether the API provides such fine
> grained control like that, and if it did, you would probably have to
> study the API for years before you could figure out how to do that.
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