From: Thomas Wieczorek <wieczo.yo@...>
Date: 2008-08-11T03:34:27+09:00
Subject: Re: why does the initialize method not return the last expression?

Like the others expressed, you can't return a value with initialize.
You can add an instance variable which will represent your Watir
object.

class Browser
attr_reader :ie
 def initialize
   @ie ||= Watir::IE.new
 end

end

and then:

browser = Browser.new
browser.ie.goto("www.gmail.com")

If you want to expand your Browser class with some custom methods and
redirect all other methods to Watir::IE, add
method_missing(methodname, *args) to it, e.g.

class Browser
  attr_reader :ie
  def initialize
    @ie ||= Watir::IE.new
  end

  def method_missing(methodname, *args)
    @ie.send(methodname, *args)
  end
end

Regards, Thomas