Webdriver in Ruby, how to make coke reusable by making classes - ruby

Question

I have a simple webdriver test in ruby below:
require 'rubygems'
require 'selenium-webdriver'
driver = Selenium::WebDriver.for :firefox
# example application under test
driver.get "https://dev08-olb.nz.thenational.com/ib4b/app/login"
element = driver.find_element :id => "accessId"
element.send_keys "123456"
element = driver.find_element :id => "userId"
element.send_keys "user1"
element = driver.find_element :id => "password"
element.send_keys "password1"
element.submit
if
"Hello".eql? driver.title
puts "Page title is #{driver.title}"
else
puts "damn it, it must be Monday"
end
driver.quit
In the future there will be lots of other cases require log in so we want to repeat as less as possible so we create the following two ruby scripts.
LogIn.rb
require 'rubygems'
require 'selenium-webdriver'
class LogIn
def initialize(accessID, user, pass)
#accessID = accessID
#user = user
#pass = pass
driver = Selenium::WebDriver.for :firefox
driver.get "https://dev08-olb.nz.thenational.com/ib4b/app/login"
element = driver.find_element :id => "accessId"
element.send_keys #accessID
element = driver.find_element :id => "userId"
element.send_keys #user
element = driver.find_element :id => "password"
element.send_keys #pass
element.submit
end
end
HelloWorld.rb
require 'rubygems'
require 'selenium-webdriver'
require './LogIn'
LogIn.new("123456","user1","password1")
driver = Selenium::WebDriver.for :firefox
if
"Hello".eql? driver.title
puts "Page title is #{driver.title}"
else
puts "damn it, it must be Monday"
end
driver.quit
However in HelloWorld.rb driver gets instantiated twice so two instance of the browser gets open at test execution, which is not desired. But if I don't instantiate driver in HelloWorld.rb, I can't access its property later.
What's your way of managing these kind of situation?
Your help is appreciated.
Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

This is more about how to program tests in Ruby, rather than Selenium specific. There are many ways of doing it.
Here is one, try initialize driver HelloWorld.rb, then pass it into Login.rb
HelloWorld.rb
require 'rubygems'
require 'selenium-webdriver'
require './LogIn'
driver = Selenium::WebDriver.for :firefox
LogIn.new(driver, "123456","user1","password1")
if
"Hello".eql? driver.title
puts "Page title is #{driver.title}"
else
puts "damn it, it must be Monday"
end
driver.quit
Login.rb
require 'rubygems'
require 'selenium-webdriver'
class LogIn
def initialize(driver, accessID, user, pass)
#driver = driver
#accessID = accessID
#user = user
#pass = pass
driver.get "https://dev08-olb.nz.thenational.com/ib4b/app/login"
element = driver.find_element :id => "accessId"
element.send_keys #accessID
element = driver.find_element :id => "userId"
element.send_keys #user
element = driver.find_element :id => "password"
element.send_keys #pass
element.submit
end
end