Watir Classic
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.
gem update --system
gem install watir-classic
Detailed installation instructions are at watir.com/installation
Examples
Some examples from watir.com/examples
Loading Watir gem to drive Internet Explorer on Windows
require 'watir-classic'
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!"