From: Charles Calvert <cbciv@...>
Date: 2010-10-20T01:50:19+09:00
Subject: Re: How to delete the browser cache through ruby

On Fri, 24 Sep 2010 05:05:24 -0500, Arihan Sinha
<arihan_sinha@yahoo.com> wrote in
<4dea75d148cec56675b28729009288b8@ruby-forum.com>:

>I am using the below code but it seems not working for IE. ( not sure).
>Could anyone please help me how to delete the cache .

[snip]

> def delete_cache
>
>      @window_os_flag = RUBY_PLATFORM.downcase.include?("mswin")
>
>      #@mac_os_flag = RUBY_PLATFORM.downcase.include?("darwin")
>
>      @browser_name = page.get_eval("navigator.userAgent")
>
>      if  @window_os_flag.to_s == "true"
>
>        if @browser_name.to_s =~ /IE/
>          puts "Test is running in window platform with browser IE"
>          puts
>Dir.glob('/Users/'+ENV['USERNAME']+'/AppData/Local/Microsoft/Windows/Temporary
>Internet Files/*')
>          FileUtils.rm_r
>Dir.glob('/Users/'+ENV['USERNAME']+'/AppData/Local/Microsoft/Windows/Temporary
>Internet Files/*'),:force => true

It's a bad idea to delete the temporary files at the filesytem level
like that.  You could cause errors in the IE instance.  Instead, Take
a look at the Win32API functions that you can use for this:
<http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa384026%28VS.85%29.aspx>.

You can access these functions in Ruby using the Win32API library or
the dl/win32 library, both of which are part of the Ruby stdlib.

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