How to handle security alert in Firefox with Selenium - ruby

I'm using selenium-webdriver with ruby to write automated tests.
Chrome and the chromedriver binary work really well, but I have an issue with Firefox that is related to the configuration of the browser and that's making my tests fail, whereas they pass with Chrome.
When executing the tests in Firefox, sometimes I get an alert with this message:
Although this page is encrypted, the information you have entered is
to be sent over an unencrypted connection and could easily be read by
a third party
And it breaks the execution. Is there a way of disabling this warning in recent Firefox versions (10+) or handling this behavior with Selenium?

In the process of finding a solution for this, I think I might have found a bug in Capybara (v1.1.2).
I managed to get around this problem using the following approach, instead of using the click from capybara (which would not allow me to capture an exception), I started using the click method from selenium-webdriver.
It seems that when Firefox triggers this alertbox, a string with the message
Although this page is encrypted, the information you have entered is
to be sent over an unencrypted connection and could easily be read by
a third party
is returned as a result of object.native.click, otherwise the string
ok
is returned.
# Define the click method in ruby and call it when you're executing a 'click'
# Public: Click the object.
#
# object - Capybara::Node::Element object to click.
def click object
return_string = object.native.click
check_firefox_alertbox if return_string == "ok"
end
def check_firefox_alertbox
if #current_browser == :firefox
#session.driver.browser.switch_to.alert.accept
end
rescue Exception => e
puts e
end

Here is what you can do. Type about:config in the firefox. You would be presented a number of options (once you pass through a warning message).
You have to look for security.warn_leaving_secure; and security.warn_leaving_insecure. Make both of them false. And you would be good to go.
Please note: This would work only on the FF instance you have made modification to, so you will need to use firefox profile to launch this instance.
Hope this helps.

Actually this meant to be a comment but I need to go above 50 in order to be able to comment..I suppose by 'breaking' the execution you mean that of the Ruby Script right? What happens to Firefox? Needs a click to proceed? If that is the case you can improvise by capturing the Ruby error after inserting the sensitive code (where it breaks) between a BEGIN and a RESCUE clause..Something like this..
BEGIN
.
.
Code that is giving you a headache
.
.
RESCUE
.
Capture the exception and give Ruby a chance to continue the script normally.
.
.
END
Alternatively if you don't fancy the above solution you can go to Firefox and then type in the address box about:config. Filter by 'security.warn' and set to false all the boolean variables you see there. Good riddance, fingers crossed ;)

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How can I get Watir to make a fresh reference on a non-stale element?

A portion of some tests I am writing calls for checking if an option gets removed from a select list once that option has been used. I am inconsistently getting this error: timed out after 60 seconds, waiting for {:xpath=>"//select[#id = 'newIdentifierType']//option", :index=>31} to be located (Watir::Exception::UnknownObjectException)
It causes my test to fail maybe 2-3 times out of 10 runs and seems kind of random. I think Watir is looking for the "old" select list with this ID since it caches the element and may also include that it had 32 items, but it times out since a select list with this ID and 32 items no longer exists. The new select list has the same ID but only 31 items.
Is there a way to always get a new reference on this element even though it's not technically going stale? Am I experiencing this problem due to a different issue?
My current code for getting the options in the select list:
#browser.elements(:xpath => "//select[#id = 'newIdentifierType']//option")
I am using Ruby/Cucumber with Selenium and Watir Webdriver level. I first tried defining the element as a select_list in a page-object but moved it to the step definitions using #browser.element to see if that would stop the timeout. I thought it may ignore Watir's cached elements and get the most current one with the ID, but that does not appear to be the case.
Please avoid using XPath with Watir. Everything you can do with XPath, Watir has a much more readable API to handle.
To check for a specific option not being there, you should avoid collections and locate directly:
el = browser.select_list(id: "newIdentifierType").option(value: "31"))
# or
el = browser.select_list(id: "newIdentifierType").option(text: "This one"))
Then to see if it has gone away:
el.stale?
# or
el.wait_until(:stale?)
That won't test the right thing if the entire DOM has changed, though, so you might need to just relocate:
browser.select_list(id: "newIdentifierType").option(text: "This one")).present?
If you are intent on using a collection, the correct way to get the list of options is:
options = #browser.select(id: 'newIdentifierType').options
el = options.find { |o| o.text == 'This one' }
# Do things
el.stale?

What is the best way to get keyboard events (input without press 'enter') in a Ruby console application?

I've been looking for this answer in the internet for a while and have found other people asking the same thing, even here. So this post will be a presentation of my case and a response to the "solutions" that I have found.
I am such new in Ruby, but for learning purposes I decided to create a gem, here.
I am trying to implement a keyboard navigation to this program, that will allow the user use short-cuts to select what kind of request he want to see. And in the future, arrow navigations, etc.
My problem: I can't find a consistent way to get the keyboard events from the user's console with Ruby.
Solutions that I have tried:
Highline gem: Seems do not support this feature anymore. Anyway it uses the STDIN, keep reading.
STDIN.getch: I need to run it in a parallel loop, because at the same time that the user can use a short-cut, more data can be created and the program needs to show it. And well, I display formated text in the console, (Rails log). When this loop is running, my text lost the all the format.
Curses: Cool but I need to set position(x,y) to display my text every time? It will get confusing.
Here is where I am trying to do it.
You may note that I am using "stty -raw echo" (turns raw off) before show my text and "stty raw -echo" (turns raw on) after. That keeps my text formated.
But my key listener loop is not working. I mean, It works in sometimes but is not consistent. If a press a key twice it don't work anymore and sometimes it stops alone too.
Let me put one part of the code here:
def run
# Two loops run in parallel using Threads.
# stream_log loops like a normal stream in the file, but it also parser the text.
# break it into requests and store in #requests_queue.
# stream_parsed_log stream inside the #requests_queue and shows it in the screen.
#requests_queue = Queue.new
#all_requests = Array.new
# It's not working yet.
Thread.new { listen_keyboard }
Thread.new { stream_log }
stream_parsed_log
end
def listen_keyboard
# not finished
loop do
char = STDIN.getch
case char
when 'q'
puts "Exiting."
exit
when 'a'
#types_to_show = ['GET', 'POST', 'PUT', 'DELETE', 'ASSET']
requests_to_show = filter_to_show(#all_requests)
command = true
when 'p'
#types_to_show = ['POST']
requests_to_show = filter_to_show(#all_requests)
command = true
end
clear_screen if command
#requests_queue += requests_to_show if command
command = false
end
end
I need a light in my path, what should I do?
That one was my mistake.
It's just a logic error in another part of code that was running in another thread so the ruby don't shows the error by default. I used ruby -d and realized what was wrong. This mistake was messing my keyboard input.
So now it's fixed and I am using STDIN.getch with no problem.
I just turn the raw mode off before show any string. And everything is ok.
You can check here, or in the gem itself.
That's it.

#driver.find_element(:id=>"body").text.include?(textcheck) not verifying the text only the id

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.

How do you check the page for text using Selenium 2 and Firefox?

I am trying to check to see if text is present using Selenium 2 and Firefox but cant seem to find the method to use. I tried to use the method is_text_present which seems to be what everyone says work but will not work for me. I get the returned error:
NoMethodError: undefined method `is_text_present' for# Selenium::WebDriver::Driver:0x1017232e0 browser=:firefox
How do you check the page for text using Selenium 2 and Firefox?
When I tried this stack overflow option "Finding text in page with selenium 2" it did not work for me, I believe it doesn't work because I am using Ruby to do my test, not Java.
If you don't know in which element should be your text, you can use :
driver.page_source.include? 'TEXT_TO_SEARCH'
Otherwise you can use as Llelong and Thomp suggested :
driver.find_element(:id=>"ELEMENT_ID").text.include? 'TEXT_TO_SEARCH'
driver.find_element(:class=>"ELEMENT_CLASS").text.include? 'TEXT_TO_SEARCH'
You can find the text in JAVA using the following code snippet...
Try using the same for Ruby:-
driver.getPageSource().contains("TEXTTOSEARCH");
require 'selenium-webdriver'
br = Selenium::WebDriver.for :firefox
br.get "http://cnn.com"
br.find_element(:id=>"cnnMainPage")
br.find_element(:id=>"cnnMainPage").text.include? "Mideast"
I tested this in the irb, so you may run into timing problems (may have to wait for the element to be present first).
I'm not sure how to do it in Ruby, but you should be able to call the getPageSource() method, and check to see if that contains the string of text you're looking for.
If you can't find the text in the source, you probably want to identify the exact element that contains the text and call the getText() method on that element. For example, these are some common identifiers for elements:
driver.findElement(By.xpath("xpathstring")).getText()
driver.findElement(By.className("className")).getText()
driver.findElement(By.name("elementname")).getText()
driver.findElement(By.id("idname")).getText()
There are several more element identifiers, you'll have to consult the documentation if these don't work for you.
this worked for me...
driver.page_source.should_not include 'Login failed'

Ruby Selenium - How to check if text is present only once

I am working on a application that reports status updates on certain services. I am using Ruby Selenium for testing the application.
For the same purpose I wana test some updates that are just plain text - these updates should appear exactly once in the page. Thus, how can I test if a web page has some text only once ?
I am looking for something like
assertTextPresentOnlyOnce ??
I believe you are looking something like this..:
!20.times { break if (selenium.is_visible(driver.find_element(:id, 'loginid'))
rescue false ); sleep 1}
.
.
[rest of the code you want to execute]
.
.
This will cover you and for page time-out as well if the element you want is not present yet. As soon as selenium finds the element you want the loop will break and the code below will be executed.

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