For example purposes, lets use google. Let us also assume in the search bar on google we enter texts that reads, "hello". Lastly lets assume the search bar has a save button and we select it to store the data in the field. So now, when you look at the search bar it reads, "hello".
I want to go back into the browser navigate to google and check that text field to ensure it saved as expected - my data that is. I know how to navigate there. But can someone explain to me in Rspec/Ruby how to go into a browser, find the web element you want to verify the value by way of id, name, xpath, etc....and write a command using selenium webdriver with Rspec/Ruby to do so. NO CAPYBARA.
After entering the search term, you can get the value (e.g. element['value']) from the text field, and use an rspec expectation to validate that the correct string has been entered. For example:
#foo_spec.rb
require 'selenium-webdriver'
require 'rspec'
describe "Contrived Example" do
it "enters a search term" do
driver = Selenium::WebDriver.for :firefox
driver.navigate.to "http://google.com"
element = driver.find_element(:name, 'q')
element.send_keys "test string"
sleep 1
expect(element['value']).to eq "test string"
driver.quit
end
end
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I am very new stackoverflow. So pardon me if I not asked question in right way.
I just started exploring Selenium WebDriver with Ruby.
My problem is as below:
I am navigating to a site(https://www.upwork.com) and entering search keyword(eg:Selenium) in search text box and then I click on Search button. Once I got the Search Results, I am parsing all the search results.
Now I want to print all the names having my search keyword as their skills and I also want to print all names who do not have search keyword as their skills.I tried to do something like this.How can I handle this?
Note: I can use only selenium-webdriver gem
def freelancers_having_skills(skills)
sleep(5)
#allDetails=#driver.find_elements(FREELANCERS) #Capturing all the search results.
#allDetails.each do |item|
temp=item.text
if(temp.include?skills)
temp.each_char {
|c| if (c!='\n')
print c
else
break
end
break
}
puts
end
end
end
Search Results page is like below.
Search Results Page Screenshot
I'm using Selenium in Ruby ( a language that I am currently learning) and I have a drop down menu that I want to iterate though, select each option, do some stuff, and then move onto the next option.
I have looked at several answers that are somewhat similar. Only one Stack Overflow question had to similar idea in mind as mine but it's in Python and I just don't know the syntax for Ruby.
I have read through the documentation for Ruby and haven't found anything that does anything similar to the Python way.
Essentially what I want to do is:
select first option
click a button
navigate to a different page
download a csv
return back to the previous page
select second option
do the same thing
etc...until all the options are done
Is this possible? I can figure out returning to the previous page and clicking the csv option but I would like some help on the syntax part.
Thank you
The ruby bindings for selenium-webdriver have a Select class for manipulating select lists.
Here's a contrived example that locates a select_list element, passed the element to a Select object, and prints the text of each option in the list. YMMV...
require "selenium-webdriver"
driver = Selenium::WebDriver.for :firefox
driver.navigate.to "https://www.seleniumeasy.com/test/basic-select-dropdown-demo.html"
element = driver.find_element(id: 'select-demo')
select_list = Selenium::WebDriver::Support::Select.new(element)
select_list.options.each { |option| puts option.text}
#=> Please select
#=> Sunday
#=> Monday
#=> Tues
...
I'm trying to get an automated Google search to click on the first link. So far I have not been successful and was wondering if someone could assist me. The search results populate, although the act of clicking the first link fails every time.
require "selenium-webdriver"
driver = Selenium::WebDriver.for :firefox
driver.navigate.to "http://google.com"
element = driver.find_element(:name, 'q')
element.send_keys "translate"
element.submit
resultlink = driver.find_Element(:link, "Google Translate")
resultlink.click
How about you try locating the First link using CSS selectors, something like this:
driver.find_element(:css, "#rso li:nth-child(1) div > h3 > a").click
where the 1 in the brackets (after nth-child) refers to the first search result.
Also I may be wrong, but try :link_text instead of :link, something like this :
resultlink = driver.find_element(:link_text, "Google Translate")
resultlink.click
If you watch this while it's happening, you might notice that it's failing before the results load. This is probably the single most annoying aspect of automation: timing.
I tried adding sleep(5) before defining the element and it worked. However, sleeps are generally bad, so you should instead give selenium a little leeway to find the element before deciding it doesn't exist. You do this through implicit waits. For example:
driver.manage.timeouts.implicit_wait = 5 #time in seconds
This sets the maximum time that selenium will allow for an element to load. If it finds it sooner, it will continue right away. For this reason, it is far more efficient than sleep. More info is available in the documentation. Set this any time before you need to find your element. Once set, this will apply for the remainder of your test. It's a good idea in general to allow for slight delays and/or network hiccups.
First, if you are learning Selenium, don't use any of the Google pages to start with. They look simple but are extremely tricky and complex under the hood. Find another website to automate please. It is against Google's user agreement anyway.
Then I can provide you working code. Note Google search results may render differently in different browsers, and you also need to use WebDriverWait for waiting.
require 'selenium-webdriver'
driver = Selenium::WebDriver.for :firefox
driver.navigate.to "http://google.com"
element = driver.find_element(:name, 'q')
element.send_keys "translate"
element.submit
wait = Selenium::WebDriver::Wait.new(:timeout => 10)
wait.until {
driver.find_element(:css , 'h3 > a')
}
# click first result
# driver.find_element(:xpath , '(.//h3/a)[1]').click
results = driver.find_elements(:css , 'h3 > a')
results.each { |result|
if result.attribute('textContent') == 'Google Translate'
result.click
break
end
}
(.//h3/a)[1] means the first result. In Firefox, results don't have unique data-href for identifying, so you need to use index.
Otherwise, you can loop through all result links for a link that its attribute textContent equals Google Translate. Note the link text for it is actually Google <em>Translate</em>, so using text() in XPath might not work.
If you find the solution above is too much to take in, it proves you shouldn't start learning Selenium using Google pages in the first place. ;)
I am using Selenium-WebDriver for Ruby and I am trying to verify that text is present on a page. I have done many searches and tried many things and the best answer I have found is to use something like
def check_page(textcheck)
if verify {#driver.find_element(:id=>"body").text.include?(textcheck)}
yield it_to "fail"
else
yield it_to "pass"
end
end
The expected outcome if the value of textcheck is present in the body would be pass and if the value of textcheck is not present in the body it would be fail. What is actually happening is if :id=>"body" is present then it is pass and if it is not present then it is fail regardless of .text.include?(textcheck)
If anyone could point me in the right direction for how to verify text is present on a page using Selenium-WebDriver in Ruby it would be greatly appreciated. I have found workarounds for certain cases where I can do
verify {#driver.find_element(:tag_name, 'h1').text!=(textcheck)}
but the element I am trying to verify I can't get to so easily. I looked into css locators and was very confused on how to simplify the tag so I could use it. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you very much. If you require any more information from me please let me know and I will provide it as soon as possible.
I am using Ruby 1.93 with Selenium-WebDriver 2.25 testing in Firefox 14.0.1
I do it this way
#wait = Selenium::WebDriver::Wait.new(:timeout => 30)
begin
#wait.until { #driver.find_element(:tag_name => "body").text.include?("your text")}
rescue
puts "Failure! text is not present on the page"
#Or do one of the options below
#raise
#assert_match "true","false", "The text is not present"
end
UPDATE
Answer to your question in the comments section.
There are two kind of "waits", implicit wait and explicit wait. You can read more about it here. The reason your code failed was because you were searching by "id"=>"body" and not by "tag_name"=>"body". Usually all text is encompassed within the "body" HTML tags in your DOM.
I am new to nokogiri, but it looks like this would be the tool that I would use to scrape a webpage. I am looking for specific words on a webpage. The words are "Valid", "Requirements Met", and "Requirements Not". I am using watir to drive through the website. I currently have:
page = Nokogiri::HTML.parse(browser.html)
to get the html, but I am not sure where to go from here.
Thanks for the help!
If you are using Watir to drive the website, I would suggest using Watir to check for the text. You can get all the text on the page using:
ie.text #Where ie is a Watir::IE
You could then check to see if it has those words are included (by comparing to a regex):
if ie.text =~ /Valid|Requirements Met|Requirements Not/
#Do something if the words are on the page
end
That said, if you are looking for a specific bits of text, you can use Watir to look specifically for those elements (and avoid parsing text or html). If you can provide an HTML sample of what you are working on, we can help find a more robust solution.
I am not sure why you are using both. You could get the page using 'net/http' or mechanize if you just want to check for text. Anyways, you can check for text in watir with browser.text.match 'Valid', same for nokogiri with page.text.match 'Valid'.
You should also be able to use the .text method from Justin's answer along with the standard ruby string .include? method which returns true or false.
if browser.text.include? /Valid|Requirements Met|Requirements Not/
#code to execute if text found
else
#code to execute if text not found
end
This also makes it easy to have a single line validation step if that is what you are after
if using rspec/cucumber
browser.text.should include /Valid|Requirements Met|Requirements Not/
if using test:Unit
assert browser.text.include? /Valid|Requirements Met|Requirements Not/