Chapter 53/Day0: Watir-Webdriver Journey

Here is the first Days worth of notes with watir-webdriver and selenium-webdriver.

1. First experiment is to run ruby script #1.
   
2. Second experiment is "#2" link.
3. 2/6/2010: Used Ruby 1.8.6 on Vista.
4. 2/6/2010: Could not install selenium-webdriver on Mac. (PROBLEM) error-msg-mac
   
5. 2/7/2010: Used ruby 1.8.7 on Ubuntu. Had to install 32-bit version of Chrome on Ubuntu.
6. 2/7/2010: Rebuilt OpenSolaris in VirtualBox on Vista PC/done. Then installed ruby-dev,
   SUNWjruby, SUNWruby18 (plus 37 other packages) (245.03 MB) using Package Manager.
   Then I "su -" to root and ran "gem update --system". Still getting an error message when
   I try to install "gem install selenium-webdriver". error-msg-link
7. Also found the following other reference related to some of the above errors.

• http://github.com/ffi/ffi/issuesearch?state=open&q=ffi#issue/30
• http://groups.google.com/group/watir-general/msg/867c2ee4b52ae1e5?pli=1
• http://pastie.org/pastes/713484

1. Found reference to run "sudo port install libffi" on mac for missing ffi.h errors so
   upgrade macports and then ran command for libffi-3.0.8 package. Downloaded
   3.0.0 ftp package and ran "configure" and "make install" and got these errors.
   
2. Installed selenium-webdriver's dependencies independently (rack (1.1), json_pure (1.2), ffi (0.5.4), and rspec (1.3.0).
3. Then installed selenium-webdriver (0.0.16) successfully and then watir-webdriver (0.0.1.dev5) successfully.
4. Then try mac version as documented above in table.
5. GIT location for watir-webdriver: http://github.com/jarib/watir-webdriver/issues
6. Who else is working on watir-webdriver?

• Jari Bakken is the only one who's written code so far. Željko Filipin has been very
  helpful with testing, documenting and spreading the word.

1. What google/yahoo e-groups do I plan to use?

• Use webdriver@googlegroups.com and selenium-dev lists.
  Also the wtr-development@rubyforge.org list (on Rubyforge IIRC).
  Then watir-general@googlegroups.com.
  (only me) opensolaris-announce@opensolaris.org

1. IDE being used by watir-webdriver developers: (was: Which IDE? Eclipse, Netbeans, Redmine, Intellij)

• Jari usually prefers simple text editors over IDEs;
  TextMate on OS X and emacs everywhere else.
  If I were to pick an IDE, it would be RubyMine.

1. What is the best way to communicate?
   -- Google Talk, e-groups, email, twitter, IRC (sorted)
   

   IRC (I'm in #watir on freenode), but you can also reach me on email or
   GTalk. I've also had good experiences collaborating on open source
   projects with Google Wave.

2. Research OpenSolaris contacts/old paperwork. (done)
   

Jari's Advice on Patches/Pull Requests

• Fork the project.
• Make your feature addition or bug fix.
• Add tests for it. This is important so I don’t break it in a future version unintentionally.
• Commit, do not mess with rakefile, version, or history. (if you want to have your
  own version, that is fine but bump version in a commit by itself I can ignore when I pull).
• Send me a pull request. Bonus points for topic branches.

2/13/2010 Request:
I would like to help out with watir-webdriver so I have been
setting up different environments (see Summary Wiki below) and
installing the software (selenium-webdriver and watir-webdriver).