Chapter 16: Watir on Newer Releases + Non-Windows

Watir on Newer Releases or Non-Windows

• RubyInstaller: http://rubyforge.org/pipermail/rubyinstaller-devel/2009-February/000473.html
• Linus Centos: http://www.rubyhead.com/2007/12/05/installing-rails-server-centos-45/
• whohas: http://freshmeat.net/projects/whohas/?branch_id=59360&release_id=294606
• http://tech.waltco.biz/2008/02/23/use-swig-to-build-a-ruby-extension-to-wrap-a-windows-dll/
• http://rubyforge.org/projects/win32utils
• JIRA Ticket: http://jira.openqa.org/browse/WTR-288
• GIT on Mac OSX: http://code.google.com/p/git-osx-installer/
• Installing GIT on older MAC: http://geekythoughtbubbles.blogspot.com/2009/02/how-to-install-git-on-mac-os-x-104.html
  

Cygwin GIT Auto Completion

• http://marioaquino.blogspot.com/2009/02/git-tab-completion-from-cygwin.html
• http://gist.github.com/58383

Using Cygwin with GIT

• http://harvestgit.blogspot.com/2008/11/setting-up-git-version-control-and.html

FireWatir and unicode IDs/input, etc... Works with Watir/IE...‏

For anyone interested, I did get this to work after all - I needed to
add these two lines to my spec_helper.rb (or whatever setup file you
may be using):

$KCODE = "u"
WIN32OLE.codepage = WIN32OLE::CP_UTF8

Firefox then works with Japanese, German, etc - though some things are
a bit more limited than IE still. For example, you can do this in IE:

@browser.button(:value, "続行").click

But this won't work with non-English characters in FF... But unicode
strings in most other places do work, e.g.:

@browser.button(:id, "continue").value.should == "続行"

will pass... Selecting items from lists, etc is also working
correctly....