From: Matthew Barnes <bbaarrnneess@...>
Date: 2010-08-06T02:35:05+09:00
Subject: Re: Send Text w/ Ruby

On Aug 5, 10:53 am, John W Higgins <wish...@gmail.com> wrote:
> [Note:  parts of this message were removed to make it a legal post.]
>
> On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 9:45 AM, Matthew Barnes <bbaarrnne...@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

Wow, I did not know this, thanks for the info John!  I will def check
this out.