Watir
Watir, pronounced water, is an open-source (BSD) family of Ruby libraries for automating web browsers. It supports your app no matter what technology it is developed in. They support Internet Explorer on Windows, Firefox and Chrome on Windows, Mac and Linux and Safari on Mac.
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Install
You have to install Ruby and RubyGems first. To be able to drive Firefox you have to install Firefox add-on. Detailed installation instructions are at watir.com/installation
Windows
To install Internet Explorer and Firefox driver:
gem update --system
gem install watir
Mac
To install Firefox driver:
sudo gem update --system
sudo gem install firewatir
To install Safari driver, you have to install Xcode first and then:
sudo gem install rb-appscript
sudo gem install safariwatir
Linux
To install Firefox driver:
sudo gem update --system
sudo gem install firewatir
Examples
Some examples from watir.com/examples
Including Watir gem to drive Internet Explorer on Windows
require 'watir'
Including FireWatir gem to drive Firefox on Windows/Mac/Linux
require 'firewatir'
Starting a new browser & and going to our site
browser = Watir::Browser.new
browser.goto("http://bit.ly/watir-example")
Setting a text field
browser.text_field(:name => "entry.0.single").set "Watir"
Setting a multi-line text box
browser.text_field(:name => "entry.1.single").set "I come here from Australia. \n The weather is great here."
Setting and clearing a radio button
browser.radio(:value => "watir").set
browser.radio(:value => "watir".clear
Setting and clearing check boxes
browser.checkbox(:value => "Ruby").set
browser.checkbox(:value => "Python").set
browser.checkbox(:value => "Python").clear
Clicking a button
browser.(:name => "logon").click
Clearing, getting and selecting selection list values
browser.select_list(:name => "entry.6.single").clear
puts browser.select_list(:name => "entry.6.single").
browser.select_list(:name => "entry.6.single").select "Chrome"
Clicking a button
browser.(:name => "submit").click
Checking for text in a page
puts browser.text.include? "Your response has been recorded."
Checking the title of a page
puts browser.title == "Thanks!"