From: Zhi-Qiang Lei <zhiqiang.lei@...>
Date: 2010-12-26T23:36:31+09:00
Subject: Re: What method to define a random float

Hi,

When the argument to rand is 0, it will return a random float number greater than or equal to 0 and less than 1.

On Dec 26, 2010, at 10:23 PM, Fan Jin wrote:

> Hi:
> I've applied the watir API to login to a website and input a integer
> value into a textfield. According to my task is to test the website's
> responding time regarding to distinguished values, it needs to input a
> random number everytime. Thus, I've defined a random number by coding:
> 
> @num = rand(5)
> 
> This integer should not exceed than 5. However, I applied the Watir to
> write the variable to that corresponding textfield where I coded:
> 
> $browser.text_field(:id, 'keyword_instance_SearchBidMax').set(@num)
> 
> #The variable @num should be any integer which is between 1 and 5.
> However, it turned to the error message as following:
> 
> D:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/firewatir-1.6.7/lib/firewatir/elements/text_field.rb:199:in
> `doKeyPress': undefined method `length' for 4:Fixnum (NoMethodError)
> 
> Can you help me to figure it out please? Thanks.
> 
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Best regards,
Zhi-Qiang Lei
zhiqiang.lei@gmail.com