Form submission verification through Ruby script - ruby

Question

I have a file which has a form the following HTML code:
<label for="subject">Subject</label>* : <input name="subject" id="subject" type="text">
<br>
<label for="message">Message</label>* : <textarea type="text" name="message" id="message"></textarea>
<br>
<input name="name" id="name" value="" type="hidden">
<input value="Submit Ticket" onclick="submitTicket()" type="button">
After I submit the form, the respective ticket will be in a table which has the following HTML code:
<table class="list" width="100%">
<tbody><tr class="messagelist">
<th>#</th>
<th>ID</th>
<th>Name</a></th>
<th>Subject</a></th>
<th>Owner</a></th>
<th>Priority</a></th>
</tr>
<tr class="list_row">
<td>1.</td>
<td>14</td>
<td class="name">X</td>
<td class="subject">Test1</td>
<td class="owner">AB</td>
<td class="priority">High</td>
</tr>
<tr class="list_row">
<td>2.</td>
<td>22</td>
<td class="name">Y</td>
<td class="subject">Test2</td>
<td class="owner">CD</td>
<td class="priority">Low</td>
</tr>
<tr class="list_row">
<td>3.</td>
<td>31</td>
<td class="name">Z</td>
<td class="subject">Test3</td>
<td class="owner">EF</td>
<td class="priority">Medium</td>
</tr>
<tr class="list_row">
<td>4.</td>
<td>42</td>
<td class="name">A</td>
<td class="subject">Test4</td>
<td class="owner">GH</td>
<td class="priority">High</td>
</tr>
<tr class="list_row">
<td>5.</td>
<td>34</td>
<td class="name">B</td>
<td class="subject">Test5</td>
<td class="owner">IJ</td>
<td class="priority">Low</td>
</tr>
<tr class="list_row">
<td>6.</td>
<td>43</td>
<td class="name">C</td>
<td class="subject">Test6</td>
<td class="owner">KL</td>
<td class="priority">Medium</td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
I am writing a RUBY code for the above form and ticket. I want to verify the submitted form and ticket with respect to subject Test1. Based on the subject, I want to click the ID link of Test1.
Could anyone please help how to do this?
Here is what I tried:
require 'watir'
browser.tds(:class, 'list_row').each do |tds_row|
if tds_row.text =~ /Test1/
tds_row.a(:href, 'index.html').click
end
end

Answer 1

You can iterate over the table rows, and element of the iterated row will be a table cell. Then, you can examine the text of that cell. If the value of the 4th cell is the one you're looking for (i.e. "Test1"), then click the link in the second cell, and break out of the iteration. Here's a contrived example:
require 'watir'
b = Watir::Browser.new :chrome
b.goto("http://some_url")
b.button(:value => "Submit Ticket").click
b.trs.each do |tr|
if tr[3].text == "Test1"
tr[1].a.click
break
end
end
b.close
It's still clunky and fragile, so it might be better to target the cells based on their class attributes.
Also--in your watir example--it looks like you are trying to locate table cells based on the parent row's class attribute (i.e. browser.tds(:class, 'list_row') instead of browser.tds(:class, 'list_row').

Answer 2

Given that the HTML is well marked-up, iterating through the rows is more complicated than it has to be. It would be easier to find the specific subject cell and then navigate to its parent row.
# Find the cell with the specific subject text
subject = browser.td(class: 'subject', text: 'Test1')
# Get the row
row = subject.parent
# Click the tracking code link
row.link(class: 'trackingcode').click