Selenium Webdriver with Ruby

README.md

Selenium Webdriver

1. Config

• Ruby v2.5.1
• macOS Catalina 10.15

2. Install gems

2.1 selenium-webdriver

Open terminal and run gem install selenium-webdriver.

$ gem list | grep selenium-webdriver
selenium-webdriver (3.142.7, 3.142.3)

2.2 webdrivers

Run gem install webdrivers in terminal.

$ gem list | grep webdrivers
webdrivers (4.3.0, 4.0.0)

3 Usage

Require the gems:

require 'selenium-webdriver'
require 'webdrivers'

Initialize a session:

driver = Selenium::WebDriver.for :chrome # OR :safari, :firefox, etc.
driver.get WEBPAGE_URL

3.1 Wait

... for content to appear on the page.

wait = Selenium::WebDriver::Wait.new(timeout: 10) # in seconds
element = wait.until { driver.find_element(id: 'myform') }

To find all elements matching a criteria, you can do driver.find_elements(...).

3.2 Find by Xpath

Search for a submit button anywhere in the page:

element = driver.find_element(xpath: "//button[@type='submit']")

You can click the submit button with element.click.

3.3 Textfield input

Enter a value:

element.send_keys('[email protected]')

Clear existing value:

element.clear

3.4 Quit driver

driver.quit