Watir on windows

Watir on windows

Watir installation on windows

(following more or less https://github.com/zeljkofilipin/watirbook/blob/master/installation/windows.md )

1) go to http://rubyinstaller.org/downloads and downloaad latest RubyInstaller and the "development kit"

2) Execute RubyInstaller, installing to c:\Ruby - add to path -> yes

3) Unpack devcelopment kit to c:\Ruby\devkit

4) 

  gem update --system
  cd c:\Ruby\devkit
  ruby dk.rb init
  ruby dk.rb install
  rem #gem install watir --no-ri --no-rdoc
  gem install watir-webdriver --no-ri --no-rdoc


5) RSpec http://rspec.info/

  gem install rspec

Example from http://watir.com/frameworks/#rspec :

require "rubygems" 
require "rspec" 
require "watir-webdriver" 
describe "google.com" do 
  let(:browser) { @browser ||= Watir::Browser.new :firefox } 
  before { browser.goto "http://google.com" } 
  after { browser.close } 
  it "should search for watir" do 
    browser.text_field(:name => "q").set "watir" 
    browser.button.click 
    browser.div(:id => "resultStats").wait_until_present 
    browser.title.should == "watir - Google Search" 
  end 
end