From: aidy <aidy.lewis@...>
Date: 2008-04-30T21:25:04+09:00
Subject: Re: Watir : Working in same session of IE

On 30 Apr, 10:52, Anukul Singhal <anukul.sing...@gmail.com> wrote:
> require 'watir'
>
> ie = Watir::IE.new
> ie.goto("http://www.google.com")
> When I execute, it successfully opens a new browser with the
> correct google url.
> Now, in this code, I simply want to add:
> ie.text_field(:name, "q").set 'roger federer'
> If I append the above line to the above code, it will open a new > session
> of IE and will perform the operation of setting the text box too, > but my
> objective is not to open a new IE with google url but to perform > the set command in the existing browser only.

It might have been better to post this on the Watir list; you can
subscribe here;
http://wtr.rubyforge.org/community.html

I think Ruby linguistic answers would be best answered at ruby.lang.

If we look at the Watir API doc
http://wtr.rubyforge.org/rdoc/

we note ie.attach

"Return a Watir::IE object for an existing IE window. Window can be
referenced by url, title, or window handle. Second argument can be
either a string or a regular expression in the case of of :url
or :title. IE.attach(:url, ‘www.google.com’) IE.attach(:title,
‘Google’) IE.attach(:hwnd, 528140) This method will not work when
Watir/Ruby is run under a service (instead of a user). "

Regards

Aidy
www.agiletester.co.uk