From: John W Higgins <wishdev@...>
Date: 2010-08-06T01:53:37+09:00
Subject: Re: Send Text w/ Ruby

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On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 9:45 AM, Matthew Barnes <bbaarrnneess@gmail.com>wrote:

> On Aug 5, 9:15 am, Roger Pack <rogerpack2...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > watir itself can populate fields, can it not?
> > -r
>
> It can, but the tags for these fields are encrypted, so every time the
> page loads its a different random string!
>


Have you looked at the page with Firebug/Firefinder to see if any pattern
can locate the fields? Firewatir doesn't specifically need to know the name
of the field you want to fill in.

As an example, if the field is located inside the same div every time then
you can walk down to it using the div and then grab the only field inside
the div. That would work the same if it was in the 3rd row of a table every
time or any other concept that can be specified to Firewatir.

For certain (well 95%+), if you can XPath the field then you can get to it
via Firewatir.

John

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