From: "Jesús Gabriel y Galán" <jgabrielygalan@...>
Date: 2011-05-22T05:09:03+09:00
Subject: Re: Looping n rows in table

On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 8:08 PM, Ashok T. <tulachanashok@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thank you Jesus for your gracious reply.
>
> I tried to execute using help from your ruby code. However since the
> text keeps on changing, i cannot put the exact text. So i came up with
> two options on the code which didn't work either.
>
> To answer your questions, i am using watir to automate my web app. So i
> declared $b = Watir::Browser.new :chrome
>
> I am trying to iterate the table so it is taking $b
>
> Table= $b.table(:id, /grid/)
>
> 1 2 3 4 5
>
> 2 100 2000
>
> 3 150 3000 text dropdown
>
> 4 200 4000
>
> 5 250 5000 text dropdown
>
> n 300 6000
>
> However, i got the following error message when i used the following
> code
>
> Table.rows.each do |row|
>
> row[5].select("Value from the dropdown") if row[4].text.exists?
>
> end
>
> Error
>
> C:/Watir Scripts/Project/Debit.rb:58:in block in report': undefined
> methodexists?' for "Account Number":String (NoMethodError) from
> C:/Ruby192/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/watir-webdriver-0.2.3/lib/watir-webdriver/element_collection.rb:21:in
> each' from
> C:/Ruby192/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/watir-webdriver-0.2.3/lib/watir-webdriver/element_collection.rb:21:ineach'
> from C:/Watir Scripts/Project/Debit.rb:57:in report' from
> driver.rb:36:inrun' from driver.rb:42:in `'
>
> So i tried to tweak the script and wrote as below.
>
> Table.rows.each do |row|
>
> if row[4].text!= ""
>
> row[5].select("Value from the dropdown")
>
> end
>
> Then i got the following error message.
> C:/Ruby192/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/watir-webdriver-0.2.3/lib/watir-webdriver/container.rb:36:in
> extract_selector': expected Hash or (:how, 'what'), got ["Exclude:
> Duplicate Account"] (ArgumentError) from
> C:/Ruby192/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/watir-webdriver-0.2.3/lib/watir-webdriver/elements/generated.rb:2163:inselect'
> from C:/Watir Scripts/Project/Credit.rb:53:in block in report' from
> C:/Ruby192/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/watir-webdriver-0.2.3/lib/watir-webdriver/element_collection.rb:21:ineach'
> from
> C:/Ruby192/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/watir-webdriver-0.2.3/lib/watir-webdriver/element_collection.rb:21:in
> each' from C:/Watir Scripts/Project/Debit.rb:51:inreport' from
> driver.rb:36:in run' from driver.rb:42:in'
>
> So i think we need to use (how, what) expressions, can you help me how
> to use those expressions in 'each' command?

I don't know much about Watir, but seeing that the error is in
container.rb, I looked here:

http://rdoc.info/gems/watir/1.8.1/Watir/Container:select_list

There you can find information about what :how and "what" mean, and
which values you can pass there.

Jesus.