Re: question on watir

Firstly, please start any new question as a new thread so others can 
find answers more easily in future.

Anyways, you want to look into this kind of thing:
http://www.tutorialspoint.com/ruby/ruby_exceptions.htm

If you're receiving a Timeout exception from Watir but your program 
keeps running then you're probably handling the exception. What you need 
to do is terminate when you hit that kind of exception. If you're 
calling a method and the exception is handled inside that method, you'll 
need to return a value which will be recognised by the parent and used 
in a decision as to whether to continue or terminate execution.

For example (caveat lector, untested code):
________________________________________________

def mymethod
b = Watir::Browser.new
b.goto 'www.purple.com'
b.close
return true
rescue Timeout::Error
puts "Page load timed out"
return false
rescue => e
puts e
return false
ensure
b.close rescue nil
end

10.times do |iteration|
unless mymethod
puts "Error occurred, terminating process"
exit
else
puts "Succeeded: #{iteration}"
end
end

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