From bret at pettichord.com  Wed Jul  2 15:03:23 2008
From: bret at pettichord.com (Bret Pettichord)
Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2008 14:03:23 -0500
Subject: [Wtr-development] SD Connector
Message-ID: <ade75c5b0807021203j547a6104i86487e83b6b91bec@mail.gmail.com>

Hey I just read this note about a javascript-based replacement for JSSH
(that does not require compiling).

http://blogs.activestate.com/shanec/2008/05/jssh-replacemen.html

I was wondering whether any one had experimented with it to see if it might
work with FireWatir?

Bret

-- 
Bret Pettichord
CTO, WatirCraft LLC, http://www.watircraft.com
Lead Developer, Watir, http://wtr.rubyforge.org
Blog (Essays), http://www.io.com/~wazmo/blog
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From paul.rogers at shaw.ca  Wed Jul  2 15:45:33 2008
From: paul.rogers at shaw.ca (Paul Rogers)
Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2008 13:45:33 -0600
Subject: [Wtr-development] SD Connector
In-Reply-To: <ade75c5b0807021203j547a6104i86487e83b6b91bec@mail.gmail.com>
References: <ade75c5b0807021203j547a6104i86487e83b6b91bec@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <e7eaafaa0807021245o75ccf201i771f6d7b956c55af@mail.gmail.com>

looks interesting. Some one also sent me this
http://drnicwilliams.com/2008/02/19/one-stop-javascript-unit-testing-for-rails2/

I dont know how it works, ( and havent investigated any ) but looks
like it might also have something like sd connector

Paul

On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 1:03 PM, Bret Pettichord <bret at pettichord.com> wrote:
> Hey I just read this note about a javascript-based replacement for JSSH
> (that does not require compiling).
>
> http://blogs.activestate.com/shanec/2008/05/jssh-replacemen.html
>
> I was wondering whether any one had experimented with it to see if it might
> work with FireWatir?
>
> Bret
>
> --
> Bret Pettichord
> CTO, WatirCraft LLC, http://www.watircraft.com
> Lead Developer, Watir, http://wtr.rubyforge.org
> Blog (Essays), http://www.io.com/~wazmo/blog
> MiniBlog (Links), http://feeds.feedburner.com/bretshotlist
> _______________________________________________
> Wtr-development mailing list
> Wtr-development at rubyforge.org
> http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/wtr-development
>

From bret at pettichord.com  Mon Jul  7 16:48:54 2008
From: bret at pettichord.com (Bret Pettichord)
Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2008 15:48:54 -0500
Subject: [Wtr-development] FireWatir Migration Plan
Message-ID: <ade75c5b0807071348x38e061cby43d9804b05c1f583@mail.gmail.com>

Several weeks ago, I went ahead and applied most of the outstanding
FireWatir patches to the repository hosted at googlecode. Actually, I
applied all the patches i found, save one, the multi-browser patch. I
had trouble getting this to work, mostly because I didn't realize that
I needed to use a different XPI.

Since then, I discoverd this web page that describes the multi-browser
patch and the patches to the XPI, as well as compiled versions of them:

http://coderrr.wordpress.com/2007/10/15/patch-to-firewatir-and-jssh-to-support-testing-with-multiple-concurrent-firefox-browsers/

I'm getting back to the FireWatir code and this is my short-range
plan:

1. Re-apply the multi-browser patch to the firewatir code on
googlecode and verify that it works with these patched xpi's.

2. Verify that this works on both Windows and Mac/Linux. I have both
Mac and Linux environments available, but will need to configure them
for testing.

3. Create a new page on the Watir wiki (confluence) with the latest
information on how to run FireWatir. This page will include the latest
(patched) XPI's.

4. Migrate the FireWatir code to OpenQA.

5. Create a new Release of FireWatir based on the code and the xpi's hosted
at OpenQA.

One of the things we'll need to do after this is put together some
protocol's for compiling and supporting the XPI's. I'm still learning
a lot about this right now, but it does seem to me that we need to
have a consistent method for versioning these, at the least.

Does this plan make sense? Anything questions or suggestions?

Bret

-- 
Bret Pettichord
CTO, WatirCraft LLC, http://www.watircraft.com
Lead Developer, Watir, http://wtr.rubyforge.org
Blog (Essays), http://www.io.com/~wazmo/blog
MiniBlog (Links), http://feeds.feedburner.com/bretshotlist
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From tim.koops at gmail.com  Mon Jul  7 18:08:09 2008
From: tim.koops at gmail.com (Tim Koopmans)
Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2008 08:08:09 +1000
Subject: [Wtr-development] FireWatir Migration Plan
In-Reply-To: <ade75c5b0807071348x38e061cby43d9804b05c1f583@mail.gmail.com>
References: <ade75c5b0807071348x38e061cby43d9804b05c1f583@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <9D35ADD4-6C59-4BA7-A0AD-E29B77ABE69F@gmail.com>

Hi Brett,

I have multiple environments available to test in (windows, mac,  
linux) so would be happy to help test out new(er) builds of the xpi's...

Do your plans still include merging firewatir and watir branches or  
are you trying to sort out the interface (jssh) first?
If you do merge, where do you intend to base/version the source code?  
Will you be using svn or git?

Thanks for your efforts in tidying this up. I see the ability to  
support multiple browsers (consistently) as a major milestone for watir.

Regards,
Tim Koopmans
90kts.com



On 08/07/2008, at 6:48 AM, Bret Pettichord wrote:

> Several weeks ago, I went ahead and applied most of the outstanding
> FireWatir patches to the repository hosted at googlecode. Actually, I
> applied all the patches i found, save one, the multi-browser patch. I
> had trouble getting this to work, mostly because I didn't realize that
> I needed to use a different XPI.
>
> Since then, I discoverd this web page that describes the multi-browser
> patch and the patches to the XPI, as well as compiled versions of  
> them:
>
> http://coderrr.wordpress.com/2007/10/15/patch-to-firewatir-and-jssh-to-support-testing-with-multiple-concurrent-firefox-browsers/
>
> I'm getting back to the FireWatir code and this is my short-range
> plan:
>
> 1. Re-apply the multi-browser patch to the firewatir code on
> googlecode and verify that it works with these patched xpi's.
>
> 2. Verify that this works on both Windows and Mac/Linux. I have both
> Mac and Linux environments available, but will need to configure them
> for testing.
>
> 3. Create a new page on the Watir wiki (confluence) with the latest
> information on how to run FireWatir. This page will include the latest
> (patched) XPI's.
>
> 4. Migrate the FireWatir code to OpenQA.
>
> 5. Create a new Release of FireWatir based on the code and the xpi's  
> hosted at OpenQA.
>
> One of the things we'll need to do after this is put together some
> protocol's for compiling and supporting the XPI's. I'm still learning
> a lot about this right now, but it does seem to me that we need to
> have a consistent method for versioning these, at the least.
>
> Does this plan make sense? Anything questions or suggestions?
>
> Bret
>
> -- 
> Bret Pettichord
> CTO, WatirCraft LLC, http://www.watircraft.com
> Lead Developer, Watir, http://wtr.rubyforge.org
> Blog (Essays), http://www.io.com/~wazmo/blog
> MiniBlog (Links), http://feeds.feedburner.com/bretshotlist  
> _______________________________________________
> Wtr-development mailing list
> Wtr-development at rubyforge.org
> http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/wtr-development

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From bret at pettichord.com  Mon Jul  7 18:23:58 2008
From: bret at pettichord.com (Bret Pettichord)
Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2008 17:23:58 -0500
Subject: [Wtr-development] FireWatir Migration Plan
In-Reply-To: <9D35ADD4-6C59-4BA7-A0AD-E29B77ABE69F@gmail.com>
References: <ade75c5b0807071348x38e061cby43d9804b05c1f583@mail.gmail.com>
	<9D35ADD4-6C59-4BA7-A0AD-E29B77ABE69F@gmail.com>
Message-ID: <ade75c5b0807071523y40659ff0y2dd0773ad4fee6c9@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 5:08 PM, Tim Koopmans <tim.koops at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> I have multiple environments available to test in (windows, mac, linux) so
> would be happy to help test out new(er) builds of the xpi's...
>

That would be great as i'm still getting my environments up and running.


> Do your plans still include merging firewatir and watir branches or are you
> trying to sort out the interface (jssh) first?
> If you do merge, where do you intend to base/version the source code? Will
> you be using svn or git?
>

Step one is to get everything into a single repository. Right now the plan
is to import the FireWatir code into our SVN repo on OpenQA. We don't have a
git repo at OpenQA. I can see moving the project to git at some point, but
am reluctant to take that on right now. I'm don't know git personally, and
it is always a chore to move a repo. Also i'm concerned that it may be too
much for other Watir developers right now. (At the same time, i suspect that
it could make things easier, so that is why i've given it some thought.)

After we have everything in a single repository, my plan right now is that
we'll have three gem targets: watir, firewatir and a new gem (watir-common?)
where we'll start to migrate common code used by both projects (both will
depend on it). With time, the common code should grow.

Bret

-- 
Bret Pettichord
CTO, WatirCraft LLC, http://www.watircraft.com
Lead Developer, Watir, http://wtr.rubyforge.org
Blog (Essays), http://www.io.com/~wazmo/blog
MiniBlog (Links), http://feeds.feedburner.com/bretshotlist
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From bret at pettichord.com  Mon Jul  7 20:10:17 2008
From: bret at pettichord.com (Bret Pettichord)
Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2008 19:10:17 -0500
Subject: [Wtr-development] Problem running Cruise Control RB on Windows
Message-ID: <ade75c5b0807071710q20e472dbp37afaf43064490bb@mail.gmail.com>

I am trying to run CruiseControlRB on Windows. My goal is to use for
testing the development of Watir.

I have installed Cruise (1.3.0) and Ruby (1.8.5) and SVN (1.5). And I
created the Watir project in cruise and manually did "rake cruise".

But when I start the Cruise server. I get an error ("Access is
denied"). It appears to come from the "svn log" command. However, I am
able to run the same command from the same directory manually without
a problem.

Any suggestions?


C:\cruise>ruby script/server --trace
cruise data root = 'C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator/.cruise'
** Ruby version is not up-to-date; loading cgi_multipart_eof_fix
=> Booting Mongrel (use 'script/server webrick' to force WEBrick)
=> Rails application starting on http://0.0.0.0:3333
=> Call with -d to detach
=> Ctrl-C to shutdown server
** Starting Mongrel listening at 0.0.0.0:3333
** Starting Rails with production environment...
** Rails loaded.
** Loading any Rails specific GemPlugins
cruise data root = 'C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator/.cruise'
** Signals ready.  INT => stop (no restart).
** Mongrel 1.1.2 available at 0.0.0.0:3333
** Use CTRL-C to stop.
[debug] Loading plugin builder_status
[debug] Loading plugin build_reaper
[debug] Loading plugin email_notifier
[debug] Loading plugin log_publisher
[debug] Loading plugin minimal_console_logger
[debug] Loading plugin project_logger
[info]  [2008-07-08 01:03:46] Builder for project 'watir' started
Logging to: C:/cruise/log/watir_builder.log
[debug] C:/Documents and Settings/Administrator/.cruise/projects/watir/work
Admi
nistrator$ svn --non-interactive log --limit 1 --revision HEAD:1 --verbose
--xml

Access is denied.
[debug] [2008-07-08 01:03:46] Sleeping
[debug] C:/Documents and Settings/Administrator/.cruise/projects/watir/work
Admi
nistrator$ svn --non-interactive log --limit 1 --revision HEAD:1 --verbose
--xml

Access is denied.

-- 
Bret Pettichord
CTO, WatirCraft LLC, http://www.watircraft.com
Lead Developer, Watir, http://wtr.rubyforge.org
Blog (Essays), http://www.io.com/~wazmo/blog
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From angrez at gmail.com  Tue Jul  8 01:11:26 2008
From: angrez at gmail.com (Angrez Singh)
Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2008 10:41:26 +0530
Subject: [Wtr-development] FireWatir Migration Plan
In-Reply-To: <ade75c5b0807071348x38e061cby43d9804b05c1f583@mail.gmail.com>
References: <ade75c5b0807071348x38e061cby43d9804b05c1f583@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <e26bda3e0807072211w5cb81408k6e52c91d2e17f174@mail.gmail.com>

Bret,

Plan looks nice to me. Let me know when you have applied the patches. Also
regarding bug fixes for Firewatir, should we do that at OpenQA or Google
Code? Thoughts?

- Angrez

On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 2:18 AM, Bret Pettichord <bret at pettichord.com> wrote:

> Several weeks ago, I went ahead and applied most of the outstanding
> FireWatir patches to the repository hosted at googlecode. Actually, I
> applied all the patches i found, save one, the multi-browser patch. I
> had trouble getting this to work, mostly because I didn't realize that
> I needed to use a different XPI.
>
> Since then, I discoverd this web page that describes the multi-browser
> patch and the patches to the XPI, as well as compiled versions of them:
>
>
> http://coderrr.wordpress.com/2007/10/15/patch-to-firewatir-and-jssh-to-support-testing-with-multiple-concurrent-firefox-browsers/
>
> I'm getting back to the FireWatir code and this is my short-range
> plan:
>
> 1. Re-apply the multi-browser patch to the firewatir code on
> googlecode and verify that it works with these patched xpi's.
>
> 2. Verify that this works on both Windows and Mac/Linux. I have both
> Mac and Linux environments available, but will need to configure them
> for testing.
>
> 3. Create a new page on the Watir wiki (confluence) with the latest
> information on how to run FireWatir. This page will include the latest
> (patched) XPI's.
>
> 4. Migrate the FireWatir code to OpenQA.
>
> 5. Create a new Release of FireWatir based on the code and the xpi's hosted
> at OpenQA.
>
> One of the things we'll need to do after this is put together some
> protocol's for compiling and supporting the XPI's. I'm still learning
> a lot about this right now, but it does seem to me that we need to
> have a consistent method for versioning these, at the least.
>
> Does this plan make sense? Anything questions or suggestions?
>
> Bret
>
> --
> Bret Pettichord
> CTO, WatirCraft LLC, http://www.watircraft.com
> Lead Developer, Watir, http://wtr.rubyforge.org
> Blog (Essays), http://www.io.com/~wazmo/blog<http://www.io.com/%7Ewazmo/blog>
> MiniBlog (Links), http://feeds.feedburner.com/bretshotlist
> _______________________________________________
> Wtr-development mailing list
> Wtr-development at rubyforge.org
> http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/wtr-development
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From bret at pettichord.com  Tue Jul  8 09:53:53 2008
From: bret at pettichord.com (Bret Pettichord)
Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2008 08:53:53 -0500
Subject: [Wtr-development] FireWatir Migration Plan
In-Reply-To: <e26bda3e0807072211w5cb81408k6e52c91d2e17f174@mail.gmail.com>
References: <ade75c5b0807071348x38e061cby43d9804b05c1f583@mail.gmail.com>
	<e26bda3e0807072211w5cb81408k6e52c91d2e17f174@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <ade75c5b0807080653q3ad8925el3c977d68d47dc78d@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 12:11 AM, Angrez Singh <angrez at gmail.com> wrote:

> Bret,
>
> Plan looks nice to me. Let me know when you have applied the patches. Also
> regarding bug fixes for Firewatir, should we do that at OpenQA or Google
> Code? Thoughts?
>

Once i move the code to OpenQA, all work should be done there. I still need
to make sure that all all Firewatir committers have commit rights on OpenQA.

Bugs should be tracked using OpenQA's Jira system. I recently added a
"firewatir" component for tracking them.

Bret
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From tim.koops at gmail.com  Wed Jul  9 03:44:40 2008
From: tim.koops at gmail.com (Tim Koopmans)
Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2008 17:44:40 +1000
Subject: [Wtr-development] FireWatir Migration Plan
In-Reply-To: <ade75c5b0807071523y40659ff0y2dd0773ad4fee6c9@mail.gmail.com>
References: <ade75c5b0807071348x38e061cby43d9804b05c1f583@mail.gmail.com>
	<9D35ADD4-6C59-4BA7-A0AD-E29B77ABE69F@gmail.com>
	<ade75c5b0807071523y40659ff0y2dd0773ad4fee6c9@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <7A79DB50-04DD-49F4-BFA3-D81FB2084A44@gmail.com>

No problems Brett,

I can still use git locally (I would like to brush up my skills  
aswell) by checking out a version from svn into a local git  
repository. This links explains that concept well: http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2008/05/develop-with-git-on-google-code-project.html

Not sure what to call ur 3rd gem, watir+firewatir = icedwatir? :P

Look forward to helping out.

Regards,
Tim Koopmans
90kts.com

On 08/07/2008, at 8:23 AM, Bret Pettichord wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 5:08 PM, Tim Koopmans <tim.koops at gmail.com>  
> wrote:
>
> I have multiple environments available to test in (windows, mac,  
> linux) so would be happy to help test out new(er) builds of the  
> xpi's...
>
> That would be great as i'm still getting my environments up and  
> running.
>
> Do your plans still include merging firewatir and watir branches or  
> are you trying to sort out the interface (jssh) first?
> If you do merge, where do you intend to base/version the source  
> code? Will you be using svn or git?
>
> Step one is to get everything into a single repository. Right now  
> the plan is to import the FireWatir code into our SVN repo on  
> OpenQA. We don't have a git repo at OpenQA. I can see moving the  
> project to git at some point, but am reluctant to take that on right  
> now. I'm don't know git personally, and it is always a chore to move  
> a repo. Also i'm concerned that it may be too much for other Watir  
> developers right now. (At the same time, i suspect that it could  
> make things easier, so that is why i've given it some thought.)
>
> After we have everything in a single repository, my plan right now  
> is that we'll have three gem targets: watir, firewatir and a new gem  
> (watir-common?) where we'll start to migrate common code used by  
> both projects (both will depend on it). With time, the common code  
> should grow.
>
> Bret
>
> -- 
> Bret Pettichord
> CTO, WatirCraft LLC, http://www.watircraft.com
> Lead Developer, Watir, http://wtr.rubyforge.org
> Blog (Essays), http://www.io.com/~wazmo/blog
> MiniBlog (Links), http://feeds.feedburner.com/bretshotlist  
> _______________________________________________
> Wtr-development mailing list
> Wtr-development at rubyforge.org
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From bret at pettichord.com  Thu Jul 10 18:24:25 2008
From: bret at pettichord.com (Bret Pettichord)
Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2008 17:24:25 -0500
Subject: [Wtr-development] Watir is now being testing continously
Message-ID: <ade75c5b0807101524w20d77c76kd78f003e7d88efd1@mail.gmail.com>

I'm pleased to announce that Watir is now being automatically tested every
time any changes are made to its code base. This is being done using
CruiseControl.rb. You can see the results of the most recent tests at
http://watirbuild.com.

I plan to also put FireWatir in CruiseControl.rb. This will help us make
sure that both implementations remain functional as we integrate their code
bases.

In my view, any one who isn't using CruiseControl to run their Watir tests
is really missing out on a great opportunity.

Bret

-- 
Bret Pettichord
CTO, WatirCraft LLC, http://www.watircraft.com
Lead Developer, Watir, http://wtr.rubyforge.org
Blog (Essays), http://www.io.com/~wazmo/blog
MiniBlog (Links), http://feeds.feedburner.com/bretshotlist
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From marekj.com at gmail.com  Thu Jul 10 19:07:23 2008
From: marekj.com at gmail.com (marekj)
Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2008 18:07:23 -0500
Subject: [Wtr-development] Watir is now being testing continously
In-Reply-To: <ade75c5b0807101524w20d77c76kd78f003e7d88efd1@mail.gmail.com>
References: <ade75c5b0807101524w20d77c76kd78f003e7d88efd1@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <ad6790aa0807101607t30e26b9bme70b1183b7ea29c7@mail.gmail.com>

Congrats, very watirful milestone.

I see there is a button 'build now' - not sure if you meant it to be public.
Of course I clicked it (yep, just testing what the button does) and looks
like I initiated build 1379.2

would you kindly make a short write up on how you set up the whole thing. I
would love implement cc.rb for my app tests.

marekj

On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 5:24 PM, Bret Pettichord <bret at pettichord.com>
wrote:

> I'm pleased to announce that Watir is now being automatically tested every
> time any changes are made to its code base. This is being done using
> CruiseControl.rb. You can see the results of the most recent tests at
> http://watirbuild.com.
>
> I plan to also put FireWatir in CruiseControl.rb. This will help us make
> sure that both implementations remain functional as we integrate their code
> bases.
>
> In my view, any one who isn't using CruiseControl to run their Watir tests
> is really missing out on a great opportunity.
>
> Bret
>
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From charley.baker at gmail.com  Thu Jul 10 19:13:28 2008
From: charley.baker at gmail.com (Charley Baker)
Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2008 17:13:28 -0600
Subject: [Wtr-development] Watir is now being testing continously
In-Reply-To: <ad6790aa0807101607t30e26b9bme70b1183b7ea29c7@mail.gmail.com>
References: <ade75c5b0807101524w20d77c76kd78f003e7d88efd1@mail.gmail.com>
	<ad6790aa0807101607t30e26b9bme70b1183b7ea29c7@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <f96821860807101613u15ddf92dk885208bf9ad4cd98@mail.gmail.com>

I did a write up on my blog. If it doesn't work let me know.


On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 5:07 PM, marekj <marekj.com at gmail.com> wrote:

> Congrats, very watirful milestone.
>
> I see there is a button 'build now' - not sure if you meant it to be
> public. Of course I clicked it (yep, just testing what the button does) and
> looks like I initiated build 1379.2
>
> would you kindly make a short write up on how you set up the whole thing. I
> would love implement cc.rb for my app tests.
>
> marekj
>
>
> On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 5:24 PM, Bret Pettichord <bret at pettichord.com>
> wrote:
>
>> I'm pleased to announce that Watir is now being automatically tested every
>> time any changes are made to its code base. This is being done using
>> CruiseControl.rb. You can see the results of the most recent tests at
>> http://watirbuild.com.
>>
>> I plan to also put FireWatir in CruiseControl.rb. This will help us make
>> sure that both implementations remain functional as we integrate their code
>> bases.
>>
>> In my view, any one who isn't using CruiseControl to run their Watir tests
>> is really missing out on a great opportunity.
>>
>> Bret
>>
>
>
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From bret at pettichord.com  Fri Jul 11 10:14:31 2008
From: bret at pettichord.com (Bret Pettichord)
Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2008 09:14:31 -0500
Subject: [Wtr-development] Watir is now being testing continously
In-Reply-To: <ad6790aa0807101607t30e26b9bme70b1183b7ea29c7@mail.gmail.com>
References: <ade75c5b0807101524w20d77c76kd78f003e7d88efd1@mail.gmail.com>
	<ad6790aa0807101607t30e26b9bme70b1183b7ea29c7@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <ade75c5b0807110714j4ff14ab8y93203a0e624a95e0@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 6:07 PM, marekj <marekj.com at gmail.com> wrote:

> I see there is a button 'build now' - not sure if you meant it to be
> public. Of course I clicked it (yep, just testing what the button does) and
> looks like I initiated build 1379.2


I can turn off that button, but i thought it be fun to leave it on right
now. You are right: any one can run the tests by pressing the button. No
harm done.


> would you kindly make a short write up on how you set up the whole thing. I
> would love implement cc.rb for my app tests.
>

I plan to.


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From aidy.lewis at googlemail.com  Sat Jul 12 13:28:38 2008
From: aidy.lewis at googlemail.com (aidy lewis)
Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2008 18:28:38 +0100
Subject: [Wtr-development] Framework Submission(iteration 1)
Message-ID: <7ac2300c0807121028l13e64f1m16c125e89e8d79cc@mail.gmail.com>

A Watir framework that object models your AUT

http://wiki.openqa.org/display/WTR/Example+Frameworks

Run example from:
watirFramework\testScripts\gmail_test.rb

Product Backlog
Add XML logging
Read YAML test data

Aidy

From angrez at gmail.com  Mon Jul 14 07:58:55 2008
From: angrez at gmail.com (Angrez Singh)
Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2008 17:28:55 +0530
Subject: [Wtr-development] Firewatir Merge Status
Message-ID: <e26bda3e0807140458r6c7b82bex9409c0664149625c@mail.gmail.com>

Hi Bret,

I couldn't find Firewatir project on OpenQA SVN. I need to make couple of
changes regarding Firefox 3 support. Let me when I can go ahead and do that
in OpenQA SVN.

Regards,
Angrez
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From bret at pettichord.com  Mon Jul 14 09:39:29 2008
From: bret at pettichord.com (Bret Pettichord)
Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2008 08:39:29 -0500
Subject: [Wtr-development] Firewatir Merge Status
In-Reply-To: <e26bda3e0807140458r6c7b82bex9409c0664149625c@mail.gmail.com>
References: <e26bda3e0807140458r6c7b82bex9409c0664149625c@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <ade75c5b0807140639r7bb0c497v3a1ad2923efe1e1@mail.gmail.com>

I haven't moved it over yet. Please go ahead and make those changes to the
google code.

Bret

On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 6:58 AM, Angrez Singh <angrez at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Bret,
>
> I couldn't find Firewatir project on OpenQA SVN. I need to make couple of
> changes regarding Firefox 3 support. Let me when I can go ahead and do that
> in OpenQA SVN.
>
> Regards,
> Angrez
>
> _______________________________________________
> Wtr-development mailing list
> Wtr-development at rubyforge.org
> http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/wtr-development
>



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Lead Developer, Watir, http://wtr.rubyforge.org
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From bret at pettichord.com  Tue Jul 15 23:12:11 2008
From: bret at pettichord.com (Bret Pettichord)
Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 22:12:11 -0500
Subject: [Wtr-development] FireWatir status and plan
Message-ID: <ade75c5b0807152012s55ccd349m8e1cabdbc74a3086@mail.gmail.com>

This is an update on the FireWatir migration. First some minor updates about
what I did today.

I added a new page to the Watir Wiki about FireWatir. My goal is to
eventually migrate the FireWatir documentation to Confluence.

  http://wiki.openqa.org/display/WTR/FireWatir

I added what i could find about FireWatir 1.1.1 to the Release Notes

  http://code.google.com/p/firewatir/wiki/ReleaseNotes

Here's my plan right now, which is somewhat different from what I said
before.

1. Tomorrow I plan to migrate the firewatir code from googlecode to openqa.
This will include Angrez's latest fix.
2. I will post the latest xpi's (3 of them) on the FireWatir page on
confluence.
3. I will build FireWatir 1.2 based on the code migrated to openqa, and ask
your help in testing it. It should have several fixes from 1.1.1, but use
the same XPI's.

Once we get this stablized, then we will work on FireWatir 1.3, which will
include support for driving multiple concurrent browsers. This require's a
different set of XPI's, currently available at
http://coderrr.wordpress.com/2007/10/15/patch-to-firewatir-and-jssh-to-support-testing-with-multiple-concurrent-firefox-browsers/

Bret

-- 
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CTO, WatirCraft LLC, http://www.watircraft.com
Lead Developer, Watir, http://wtr.rubyforge.org
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From angrez at gmail.com  Wed Jul 16 02:36:35 2008
From: angrez at gmail.com (Angrez Singh)
Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2008 12:06:35 +0530
Subject: [Wtr-development] FireWatir status and plan
In-Reply-To: <ade75c5b0807152012s55ccd349m8e1cabdbc74a3086@mail.gmail.com>
References: <ade75c5b0807152012s55ccd349m8e1cabdbc74a3086@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <e26bda3e0807152336m4b184805jfcdddea2df05c816@mail.gmail.com>

Sounds great .. We should also post the XPI's for Firefox 3. I have one for
Windows need to get others for Linux and Mac OS.

- Angrez

On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 8:42 AM, Bret Pettichord <bret at pettichord.com>
wrote:

> This is an update on the FireWatir migration. First some minor updates
> about what I did today.
>
> I added a new page to the Watir Wiki about FireWatir. My goal is to
> eventually migrate the FireWatir documentation to Confluence.
>
>   http://wiki.openqa.org/display/WTR/FireWatir
>
> I added what i could find about FireWatir 1.1.1 to the Release Notes
>
>   http://code.google.com/p/firewatir/wiki/ReleaseNotes
>
> Here's my plan right now, which is somewhat different from what I said
> before.
>
> 1. Tomorrow I plan to migrate the firewatir code from googlecode to openqa.
> This will include Angrez's latest fix.
> 2. I will post the latest xpi's (3 of them) on the FireWatir page on
> confluence.
> 3. I will build FireWatir 1.2 based on the code migrated to openqa, and ask
> your help in testing it. It should have several fixes from 1.1.1, but use
> the same XPI's.
>
> Once we get this stablized, then we will work on FireWatir 1.3, which will
> include support for driving multiple concurrent browsers. This require's a
> different set of XPI's, currently available at
> http://coderrr.wordpress.com/2007/10/15/patch-to-firewatir-and-jssh-to-support-testing-with-multiple-concurrent-firefox-browsers/
>
> Bret
>
> --
> Bret Pettichord
> CTO, WatirCraft LLC, http://www.watircraft.com
> Lead Developer, Watir, http://wtr.rubyforge.org
> Blog (Essays), http://www.io.com/~wazmo/blog<http://www.io.com/%7Ewazmo/blog>
> MiniBlog (Links), http://feeds.feedburner.com/bretshotlist
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From aidy.lewis at googlemail.com  Wed Jul 16 15:20:31 2008
From: aidy.lewis at googlemail.com (aidy lewis)
Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2008 20:20:31 +0100
Subject: [Wtr-development] Watir framework with Rspec Story Runner
Message-ID: <7ac2300c0807161220x5e9b8160l696b8ce2b78f66db@mail.gmail.com>

A Watir framework that object models your AUT and uses Rspec Story Runner

http://wiki.openqa.org/display/WTR/Example+Frameworks

Run example from:
watirFramework\runner\gmail.rb

(you will need to sign-out of gmail)

Aidy

From bret at pettichord.com  Wed Jul 16 15:58:36 2008
From: bret at pettichord.com (Bret Pettichord)
Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2008 14:58:36 -0500
Subject: [Wtr-development] FireWatir XPI's
Message-ID: <ade75c5b0807161258j2738a1f4u661b259638ffe347@mail.gmail.com>

I've taken all the "current" JSSH XPI's that i could find and put them on
this page.

  http://wiki.openqa.org/display/WTR/FireWatir

Please let me know if i've missed any. Or if my presentation isn't clear.

Bret


-- 
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CTO, WatirCraft LLC, http://www.watircraft.com
Lead Developer, Watir, http://wtr.rubyforge.org
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From bret at pettichord.com  Wed Jul 16 17:53:54 2008
From: bret at pettichord.com (Bret Pettichord)
Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2008 16:53:54 -0500
Subject: [Wtr-development] FireWatir 1.2.0 available for testing
Message-ID: <ade75c5b0807161453h411f733bwa7ffe691a14eaafb@mail.gmail.com>

I just built a new version of the FireWatir gem and uploaded it here:

  http://wiki.openqa.org/display/WTR/FireWatir

I have only tested in on Windows XP with FF 2.0 so far. I am working on the
release notes for this. I would love to get help testing it on other
platforms.

BTW, this code is now in openqa, i'll send more details about that in a
separate message.

Bret

-- 
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Lead Developer, Watir, http://wtr.rubyforge.org
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From bret at pettichord.com  Wed Jul 16 18:04:27 2008
From: bret at pettichord.com (Bret Pettichord)
Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2008 17:04:27 -0500
Subject: [Wtr-development] FireWatir Ruby code has migrated to openqa.
Message-ID: <ade75c5b0807161504j6ba0b278i97acda6745600c48@mail.gmail.com>

Today I migrated the Ruby code found at
https://firewatir.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/FireWatir (revision 147) and
imported it into https://svn.openqa.org/svn/watir/trunk/firewatir. This code
serves as basis for FireWatir 1.2 which is currently in testing.

Going forward, please commit all FireWatir patches to the openqa repository.
All FireWatir commiters should have commit rights to the Watir project.
Please contact me if you need these rights.

I'm still not sure what to do about the JSSH code also found at
firewatir.googlecode.com and don't have any immediate plans to migrate it.

Bret

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From angrez at gmail.com  Thu Jul 17 02:25:18 2008
From: angrez at gmail.com (Angrez Singh)
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 11:55:18 +0530
Subject: [Wtr-development] FireWatir XPI's
In-Reply-To: <ade75c5b0807161258j2738a1f4u661b259638ffe347@mail.gmail.com>
References: <ade75c5b0807161258j2738a1f4u661b259638ffe347@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <e26bda3e0807162325t44199293m2da93627a2cf3216@mail.gmail.com>

Bret,

It would be great if we change the name for Firefox 3 XPI (Firewatr 1.2) for
windows. Currently is says "jssh-20080708-WINNT.xpi". Can we change it to
something relevant "jssh-firefox-3.x-WINNT.xpi" or something like that? I
think we should change the names of other XPI's accordingly also. What do
you say?

- Angrez

On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 1:28 AM, Bret Pettichord <bret at pettichord.com>
wrote:

> I've taken all the "current" JSSH XPI's that i could find and put them on
> this page.
>
>   http://wiki.openqa.org/display/WTR/FireWatir
>
> Please let me know if i've missed any. Or if my presentation isn't clear.
>
> Bret
>
>
> --
> Bret Pettichord
> CTO, WatirCraft LLC, http://www.watircraft.com
> Lead Developer, Watir, http://wtr.rubyforge.org
> Blog (Essays), http://www.io.com/~wazmo/blog<http://www.io.com/%7Ewazmo/blog>
> MiniBlog (Links), http://feeds.feedburner.com/bretshotlist
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From zeljko.filipin at gmail.com  Thu Jul 17 03:35:39 2008
From: zeljko.filipin at gmail.com (=?UTF-8?Q?=C5=BDeljko_Filipin?=)
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 09:35:39 +0200
Subject: [Wtr-development] [wtr-general] Watir framework with Rspec
	Story Runner
In-Reply-To: <7ac2300c0807161220x5e9b8160l696b8ce2b78f66db@mail.gmail.com>
References: <7ac2300c0807161220x5e9b8160l696b8ce2b78f66db@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <f81b1250807170035q67e29148l47b536ac7f0a04de@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 9:20 PM, aidy lewis <aidy.lewis at googlemail.com>
wrote:
> A Watir framework that object models your AUT and uses Rspec Story Runner

Thanks Aidy for posting this. I am very interested in moving my tests from
test/unit to rspec (and hopefully to story runner). My first impression is
that this framework is to complicated for my taste. To many files and
folders. In any case, thanks for all the work, it is great to have some code
to start with.

?eljko
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From bret at pettichord.com  Thu Jul 17 10:36:14 2008
From: bret at pettichord.com (Bret Pettichord)
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 09:36:14 -0500
Subject: [Wtr-development] FireWatir XPI's
In-Reply-To: <e26bda3e0807162325t44199293m2da93627a2cf3216@mail.gmail.com>
References: <ade75c5b0807161258j2738a1f4u661b259638ffe347@mail.gmail.com>
	<e26bda3e0807162325t44199293m2da93627a2cf3216@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <ade75c5b0807170736r139b2350mdda4a8c4fc7f636c@mail.gmail.com>

I agree. I also think that the version/name of the xpi should be visible and
identifying when you look at it from within Firefox. So far, it seems like
they all identify themselves the same (v. 0.94 JSSh).

With the layout of the new FireWatir page, users don't even need to think
about the filenames, and will therefore be focussing even more on the
self-identification of the plugins.

Bret

On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 1:25 AM, Angrez Singh <angrez at gmail.com> wrote:

> Bret,
>
> It would be great if we change the name for Firefox 3 XPI (Firewatr 1.2)
> for windows. Currently is says "jssh-20080708-WINNT.xpi". Can we change it
> to something relevant "jssh-firefox-3.x-WINNT.xpi" or something like that? I
> think we should change the names of other XPI's accordingly also. What do
> you say?
>
> - Angrez
>
> On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 1:28 AM, Bret Pettichord <bret at pettichord.com>
> wrote:
>
>> I've taken all the "current" JSSH XPI's that i could find and put them on
>> this page.
>>
>>   http://wiki.openqa.org/display/WTR/FireWatir
>>
>> Please let me know if i've missed any. Or if my presentation isn't clear.
>>
>> Bret
>>
>>
>> --
>> Bret Pettichord
>> CTO, WatirCraft LLC, http://www.watircraft.com
>> Lead Developer, Watir, http://wtr.rubyforge.org
>> Blog (Essays), http://www.io.com/~wazmo/blog<http://www.io.com/%7Ewazmo/blog>
>> MiniBlog (Links), http://feeds.feedburner.com/bretshotlist
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> Wtr-development mailing list
>> Wtr-development at rubyforge.org
>> http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/wtr-development
>>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
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>



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From angrez at gmail.com  Fri Jul 25 07:30:00 2008
From: angrez at gmail.com (Angrez Singh)
Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2008 17:00:00 +0530
Subject: [Wtr-development] any plan to build a xpi extension for
	firefox3 on linux?
In-Reply-To: <e928b1b1-ffdd-4d3d-be1c-913c1ef9c04f@j1g2000prb.googlegroups.com>
References: <7b80de59-2ed1-477f-9585-d6b8d826ed6c@l42g2000hsc.googlegroups.com>
	<f81b1250807220453y648cfcc8g596f3b0c6a0cea58@mail.gmail.com>
	<e26bda3e0807220510n3cd70c72se70d5a00afefca17@mail.gmail.com>
	<9323834b-436d-461a-9b7e-3337f6d0144f@p25g2000hsf.googlegroups.com>
	<c0a6b841-755a-4957-9b1f-e72a550dcdc2@b2g2000prf.googlegroups.com>
	<e26bda3e0807230454i5d011aa7h34f0bd8f733a31e1@mail.gmail.com>
	<16d07d03-2dc4-406e-825b-b5594b76f1f9@k36g2000pri.googlegroups.com>
	<f81b1250807240110q108c3424l5efd90aeae57eaa8@mail.gmail.com>
	<e26bda3e0807240223g14bc844bwf68b9dd17ddb2749@mail.gmail.com>
	<e928b1b1-ffdd-4d3d-be1c-913c1ef9c04f@j1g2000prb.googlegroups.com>
Message-ID: <e26bda3e0807250430w402e3d06g7de008486e3a786f@mail.gmail.com>

Linux XPI for FF3 on linux is here:
http://groups.google.com/group/firewatir/web/jssh-20080725-Linux.xpi.tar.gz

Can somebody test this on his/her machine and make sure that it works.

Bret,

Can we add this to OpenQA wiki page added for FireWatir?

- Angrez

On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 4:26 PM, Harry <blogdriver at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> Hi ! Finally I made it
>
> thank you very much, I don't know whats the magic in the jssh.zip code
> and makefile, I only change the first few line to
> topsrcdir       = /home/harry/myprogram/firefox/mozilla
>
> srcdir          = /home/harry/myprogram/firefox/mozilla/extensions/jssh
>
> VPATH           = /home/harry/myprogram/firefox/mozilla/extensions/jssh
>
> and do exactally what you told me .so everything is done! but I dont
> know whether this will affect the use of others.
>
>
>
> here is the xpi file. I install it with the system default firefox3
> (which was not compiled with jssh ) and it works!
> http://groups.google.com/group/firewatir/web/jssh-20080725-Linux.xpi.tar.gz
>
> thank you again I can only do this after work,and this is pretty much
> fun with your help!
> --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~
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From aidy.lewis at googlemail.com  Wed Jul 30 12:20:26 2008
From: aidy.lewis at googlemail.com (aidy lewis)
Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2008 17:20:26 +0100
Subject: [Wtr-development] WTR-233
Message-ID: <7ac2300c0807300920v72ca9d87wcda1e61a4acbe88e@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

Could someone assign this task to me in Jira please?

Aidy

From bret at pettichord.com  Wed Jul 30 18:07:03 2008
From: bret at pettichord.com (Bret Pettichord)
Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2008 17:07:03 -0500
Subject: [Wtr-development] Supporting Multiple Browsers with FireWatir. Not.
Message-ID: <ade75c5b0807301507h2ba2debata90217abcfa2b672@mail.gmail.com>

Last fall, a popular patch was made to FireWatir to allow it to drive
multiple browsers concurrently.

I have not merged this code into the trunk of FireWatir, and have
no short term plans to do so. Mainly, this is because it requires a
recompiled XPI, which leads to several complications that I'm reluctant
to manage right now.

1. We have various versions of the XPI floating around as it is, all
self-identifying at version 0.94. We need a system for managing
versions before we can support multiple versions effectively.

2. The new XPI changes the command line API for Firefox in a way that
breaks compatibility for FireWatir. In other words, the unpatched
FireWatir will not work with the patched XPI, and vice versa. In my
view, the new FireWatir should work with either XPI. It would be
friendlier, especially since users can't really tell which version of
the XPI they have installed. (See #1).

3. We would also need to recompile the XPI for FF 3.0 on all
platforms.

4. I am not currently configured to compile the XPI's on any
platform. Some of the changes I'm suggesting are not complicated
(1. add versioning; 2. make the command line backwards compatible;
3. compile for FF3), but i would need to set up the various
environments, which would take me a couple of days. (If someone wants
to sponsor this work, I'll happily reconsider).

Instead, I plan to stick with using the old XPI and would
like to see if we can find a non-compiled alternative to JSSH such as
one of the following:

* SD Connector from the Komodo project.
http://blogs.activestate.com/shanec/2008/05/jssh-replacemen.html
* MozRepl from the MozLab project. http://hyperstruct.net/projects/mozlab

Has any one tried these out?

Bret


-- 
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CTO, WatirCraft LLC, http://www.watircraft.com
Lead Developer, Watir, http://wtr.rubyforge.org
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From paul.rogers at shaw.ca  Wed Jul 30 19:07:40 2008
From: paul.rogers at shaw.ca (Paul Rogers)
Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2008 17:07:40 -0600
Subject: [Wtr-development] Supporting Multiple Browsers with FireWatir.
	Not.
In-Reply-To: <ade75c5b0807301507h2ba2debata90217abcfa2b672@mail.gmail.com>
References: <ade75c5b0807301507h2ba2debata90217abcfa2b672@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <e7eaafaa0807301607g25c7c87fscac35d1ce4d6217b@mail.gmail.com>

I dont remember having to recompile jssh to make the multi browser
thing work, just had to change out a javascript like file in the
chrome dir.

Paul

On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 4:07 PM, Bret Pettichord <bret at pettichord.com> wrote:
> Last fall, a popular patch was made to FireWatir to allow it to drive
> multiple browsers concurrently.
>
> I have not merged this code into the trunk of FireWatir, and have
> no short term plans to do so. Mainly, this is because it requires a
> recompiled XPI, which leads to several complications that I'm reluctant
> to manage right now.
>
> 1. We have various versions of the XPI floating around as it is, all
> self-identifying at version 0.94. We need a system for managing
> versions before we can support multiple versions effectively.
>
> 2. The new XPI changes the command line API for Firefox in a way that
> breaks compatibility for FireWatir. In other words, the unpatched
> FireWatir will not work with the patched XPI, and vice versa. In my
> view, the new FireWatir should work with either XPI. It would be
> friendlier, especially since users can't really tell which version of
> the XPI they have installed. (See #1).
>
> 3. We would also need to recompile the XPI for FF 3.0 on all
> platforms.
>
> 4. I am not currently configured to compile the XPI's on any
> platform. Some of the changes I'm suggesting are not complicated
> (1. add versioning; 2. make the command line backwards compatible;
> 3. compile for FF3), but i would need to set up the various
> environments, which would take me a couple of days. (If someone wants
> to sponsor this work, I'll happily reconsider).
>
> Instead, I plan to stick with using the old XPI and would
> like to see if we can find a non-compiled alternative to JSSH such as
> one of the following:
>
> * SD Connector from the Komodo project.
> http://blogs.activestate.com/shanec/2008/05/jssh-replacemen.html
> * MozRepl from the MozLab project. http://hyperstruct.net/projects/mozlab
>
> Has any one tried these out?
>
> Bret
>
>
> --
> Bret Pettichord
> CTO, WatirCraft LLC, http://www.watircraft.com
> Lead Developer, Watir, http://wtr.rubyforge.org
> Blog (Essays), http://www.io.com/~wazmo/blog
> MiniBlog (Links), http://feeds.feedburner.com/bretshotlist
>
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From bret at pettichord.com  Wed Jul 30 19:29:03 2008
From: bret at pettichord.com (Bret Pettichord)
Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2008 18:29:03 -0500
Subject: [Wtr-development] Supporting Multiple Browsers with FireWatir.
	Not.
In-Reply-To: <e7eaafaa0807301607g25c7c87fscac35d1ce4d6217b@mail.gmail.com>
References: <ade75c5b0807301507h2ba2debata90217abcfa2b672@mail.gmail.com>
	<e7eaafaa0807301607g25c7c87fscac35d1ce4d6217b@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <ade75c5b0807301629m1c1566e1ld134cde932fe5b20@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 6:07 PM, Paul Rogers <paul.rogers at shaw.ca> wrote:

> I dont remember having to recompile jssh to make the multi browser
> thing work, just had to change out a javascript like file in the
> chrome dir.


I just read the page


http://coderrr.wordpress.com/2007/10/15/patch-to-firewatir-and-jssh-to-support-testing-with-multiple-concurrent-firefox-browsers/

more closely, and i see that you are correct. Thanks for the clarification.

That makes it easier to maintain than I realized. I'll have to rething my
position on this.

Bret

-- 
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CTO, WatirCraft LLC, http://www.watircraft.com
Lead Developer, Watir, http://wtr.rubyforge.org
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From paul.rogers at shaw.ca  Wed Jul 30 19:49:15 2008
From: paul.rogers at shaw.ca (Paul Rogers)
Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2008 17:49:15 -0600
Subject: [Wtr-development] Supporting Multiple Browsers with FireWatir.
	Not.
In-Reply-To: <ade75c5b0807301629m1c1566e1ld134cde932fe5b20@mail.gmail.com>
References: <ade75c5b0807301507h2ba2debata90217abcfa2b672@mail.gmail.com>
	<e7eaafaa0807301607g25c7c87fscac35d1ce4d6217b@mail.gmail.com>
	<ade75c5b0807301629m1c1566e1ld134cde932fe5b20@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <e7eaafaa0807301649n34213e31qc9693aee83dba9c6@mail.gmail.com>

Im fairly certain that you are correct about the patched xpi not
working with the unpatched firewatir.rb though. There are many times
Ive launched firefox ( from code ) with

firefox -jssh 9997

where 9997 is the jssh port to use

on an unpatched xpi, only to find the browser vist www.9997.com

I dont know an  easy way round this.

Ive had a lot more success with having a browser already open and
letting firewatir attach to it


Paul

On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 5:29 PM, Bret Pettichord <bret at pettichord.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 6:07 PM, Paul Rogers <paul.rogers at shaw.ca> wrote:
>>
>> I dont remember having to recompile jssh to make the multi browser
>> thing work, just had to change out a javascript like file in the
>> chrome dir.
>
> I just read the page
>
>
> http://coderrr.wordpress.com/2007/10/15/patch-to-firewatir-and-jssh-to-support-testing-with-multiple-concurrent-firefox-browsers/
>
> more closely, and i see that you are correct. Thanks for the clarification.
>
> That makes it easier to maintain than I realized. I'll have to rething my
> position on this.
>
> Bret
>
> --
> Bret Pettichord
> CTO, WatirCraft LLC, http://www.watircraft.com
> Lead Developer, Watir, http://wtr.rubyforge.org
> Blog (Essays), http://www.io.com/~wazmo/blog
> MiniBlog (Links), http://feeds.feedburner.com/bretshotlist
>
> _______________________________________________
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> http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/wtr-development
>

From bret at pettichord.com  Thu Jul 31 16:08:34 2008
From: bret at pettichord.com (Bret Pettichord)
Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 15:08:34 -0500
Subject: [Wtr-development] WTR-233
In-Reply-To: <7ac2300c0807300920v72ca9d87wcda1e61a4acbe88e@mail.gmail.com>
References: <7ac2300c0807300920v72ca9d87wcda1e61a4acbe88e@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <ade75c5b0807311308j57cfb824m76b45035370b4da7@mail.gmail.com>

http://jira.openqa.org/browse/WTR-233

Aidy,

I've requested that Patrick (who manages OpenQA) give you commit rights to
Watir, which is needed before we can assign a ticket to you.

To me this looks like a hard to problem to solve. I'm curious about your
intentions. Have you been working on this? Do you have a solution?

Bret

On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 11:20 AM, aidy lewis <aidy.lewis at googlemail.com>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Could someone assign this task to me in Jira please?
>
> Aidy
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From bret at pettichord.com  Wed Jul  2 15:03:23 2008
From: bret at pettichord.com (Bret Pettichord)
Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2008 14:03:23 -0500
Subject: [Wtr-development] SD Connector
Message-ID: <ade75c5b0807021203j547a6104i86487e83b6b91bec@mail.gmail.com>

Hey I just read this note about a javascript-based replacement for JSSH
(that does not require compiling).

http://blogs.activestate.com/shanec/2008/05/jssh-replacemen.html

I was wondering whether any one had experimented with it to see if it might
work with FireWatir?

Bret

-- 
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CTO, WatirCraft LLC, http://www.watircraft.com
Lead Developer, Watir, http://wtr.rubyforge.org
Blog (Essays), http://www.io.com/~wazmo/blog
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From paul.rogers at shaw.ca  Wed Jul  2 15:45:33 2008
From: paul.rogers at shaw.ca (Paul Rogers)
Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2008 13:45:33 -0600
Subject: [Wtr-development] SD Connector
In-Reply-To: <ade75c5b0807021203j547a6104i86487e83b6b91bec@mail.gmail.com>
References: <ade75c5b0807021203j547a6104i86487e83b6b91bec@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <e7eaafaa0807021245o75ccf201i771f6d7b956c55af@mail.gmail.com>

looks interesting. Some one also sent me this
http://drnicwilliams.com/2008/02/19/one-stop-javascript-unit-testing-for-rails2/

I dont know how it works, ( and havent investigated any ) but looks
like it might also have something like sd connector

Paul

On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 1:03 PM, Bret Pettichord <bret at pettichord.com> wrote:
> Hey I just read this note about a javascript-based replacement for JSSH
> (that does not require compiling).
>
> http://blogs.activestate.com/shanec/2008/05/jssh-replacemen.html
>
> I was wondering whether any one had experimented with it to see if it might
> work with FireWatir?
>
> Bret
>
> --
> Bret Pettichord
> CTO, WatirCraft LLC, http://www.watircraft.com
> Lead Developer, Watir, http://wtr.rubyforge.org
> Blog (Essays), http://www.io.com/~wazmo/blog
> MiniBlog (Links), http://feeds.feedburner.com/bretshotlist
> _______________________________________________
> Wtr-development mailing list
> Wtr-development at rubyforge.org
> http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/wtr-development
>


From bret at pettichord.com  Mon Jul  7 16:48:54 2008
From: bret at pettichord.com (Bret Pettichord)
Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2008 15:48:54 -0500
Subject: [Wtr-development] FireWatir Migration Plan
Message-ID: <ade75c5b0807071348x38e061cby43d9804b05c1f583@mail.gmail.com>

Several weeks ago, I went ahead and applied most of the outstanding
FireWatir patches to the repository hosted at googlecode. Actually, I
applied all the patches i found, save one, the multi-browser patch. I
had trouble getting this to work, mostly because I didn't realize that
I needed to use a different XPI.

Since then, I discoverd this web page that describes the multi-browser
patch and the patches to the XPI, as well as compiled versions of them:

http://coderrr.wordpress.com/2007/10/15/patch-to-firewatir-and-jssh-to-support-testing-with-multiple-concurrent-firefox-browsers/

I'm getting back to the FireWatir code and this is my short-range
plan:

1. Re-apply the multi-browser patch to the firewatir code on
googlecode and verify that it works with these patched xpi's.

2. Verify that this works on both Windows and Mac/Linux. I have both
Mac and Linux environments available, but will need to configure them
for testing.

3. Create a new page on the Watir wiki (confluence) with the latest
information on how to run FireWatir. This page will include the latest
(patched) XPI's.

4. Migrate the FireWatir code to OpenQA.

5. Create a new Release of FireWatir based on the code and the xpi's hosted
at OpenQA.

One of the things we'll need to do after this is put together some
protocol's for compiling and supporting the XPI's. I'm still learning
a lot about this right now, but it does seem to me that we need to
have a consistent method for versioning these, at the least.

Does this plan make sense? Anything questions or suggestions?

Bret

-- 
Bret Pettichord
CTO, WatirCraft LLC, http://www.watircraft.com
Lead Developer, Watir, http://wtr.rubyforge.org
Blog (Essays), http://www.io.com/~wazmo/blog
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From tim.koops at gmail.com  Mon Jul  7 18:08:09 2008
From: tim.koops at gmail.com (Tim Koopmans)
Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2008 08:08:09 +1000
Subject: [Wtr-development] FireWatir Migration Plan
In-Reply-To: <ade75c5b0807071348x38e061cby43d9804b05c1f583@mail.gmail.com>
References: <ade75c5b0807071348x38e061cby43d9804b05c1f583@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <9D35ADD4-6C59-4BA7-A0AD-E29B77ABE69F@gmail.com>

Hi Brett,

I have multiple environments available to test in (windows, mac,  
linux) so would be happy to help test out new(er) builds of the xpi's...

Do your plans still include merging firewatir and watir branches or  
are you trying to sort out the interface (jssh) first?
If you do merge, where do you intend to base/version the source code?  
Will you be using svn or git?

Thanks for your efforts in tidying this up. I see the ability to  
support multiple browsers (consistently) as a major milestone for watir.

Regards,
Tim Koopmans
90kts.com



On 08/07/2008, at 6:48 AM, Bret Pettichord wrote:

> Several weeks ago, I went ahead and applied most of the outstanding
> FireWatir patches to the repository hosted at googlecode. Actually, I
> applied all the patches i found, save one, the multi-browser patch. I
> had trouble getting this to work, mostly because I didn't realize that
> I needed to use a different XPI.
>
> Since then, I discoverd this web page that describes the multi-browser
> patch and the patches to the XPI, as well as compiled versions of  
> them:
>
> http://coderrr.wordpress.com/2007/10/15/patch-to-firewatir-and-jssh-to-support-testing-with-multiple-concurrent-firefox-browsers/
>
> I'm getting back to the FireWatir code and this is my short-range
> plan:
>
> 1. Re-apply the multi-browser patch to the firewatir code on
> googlecode and verify that it works with these patched xpi's.
>
> 2. Verify that this works on both Windows and Mac/Linux. I have both
> Mac and Linux environments available, but will need to configure them
> for testing.
>
> 3. Create a new page on the Watir wiki (confluence) with the latest
> information on how to run FireWatir. This page will include the latest
> (patched) XPI's.
>
> 4. Migrate the FireWatir code to OpenQA.
>
> 5. Create a new Release of FireWatir based on the code and the xpi's  
> hosted at OpenQA.
>
> One of the things we'll need to do after this is put together some
> protocol's for compiling and supporting the XPI's. I'm still learning
> a lot about this right now, but it does seem to me that we need to
> have a consistent method for versioning these, at the least.
>
> Does this plan make sense? Anything questions or suggestions?
>
> Bret
>
> -- 
> Bret Pettichord
> CTO, WatirCraft LLC, http://www.watircraft.com
> Lead Developer, Watir, http://wtr.rubyforge.org
> Blog (Essays), http://www.io.com/~wazmo/blog
> MiniBlog (Links), http://feeds.feedburner.com/bretshotlist  
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From bret at pettichord.com  Mon Jul  7 18:23:58 2008
From: bret at pettichord.com (Bret Pettichord)
Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2008 17:23:58 -0500
Subject: [Wtr-development] FireWatir Migration Plan
In-Reply-To: <9D35ADD4-6C59-4BA7-A0AD-E29B77ABE69F@gmail.com>
References: <ade75c5b0807071348x38e061cby43d9804b05c1f583@mail.gmail.com>
	<9D35ADD4-6C59-4BA7-A0AD-E29B77ABE69F@gmail.com>
Message-ID: <ade75c5b0807071523y40659ff0y2dd0773ad4fee6c9@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 5:08 PM, Tim Koopmans <tim.koops at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> I have multiple environments available to test in (windows, mac, linux) so
> would be happy to help test out new(er) builds of the xpi's...
>

That would be great as i'm still getting my environments up and running.


> Do your plans still include merging firewatir and watir branches or are you
> trying to sort out the interface (jssh) first?
> If you do merge, where do you intend to base/version the source code? Will
> you be using svn or git?
>

Step one is to get everything into a single repository. Right now the plan
is to import the FireWatir code into our SVN repo on OpenQA. We don't have a
git repo at OpenQA. I can see moving the project to git at some point, but
am reluctant to take that on right now. I'm don't know git personally, and
it is always a chore to move a repo. Also i'm concerned that it may be too
much for other Watir developers right now. (At the same time, i suspect that
it could make things easier, so that is why i've given it some thought.)

After we have everything in a single repository, my plan right now is that
we'll have three gem targets: watir, firewatir and a new gem (watir-common?)
where we'll start to migrate common code used by both projects (both will
depend on it). With time, the common code should grow.

Bret

-- 
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CTO, WatirCraft LLC, http://www.watircraft.com
Lead Developer, Watir, http://wtr.rubyforge.org
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From bret at pettichord.com  Mon Jul  7 20:10:17 2008
From: bret at pettichord.com (Bret Pettichord)
Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2008 19:10:17 -0500
Subject: [Wtr-development] Problem running Cruise Control RB on Windows
Message-ID: <ade75c5b0807071710q20e472dbp37afaf43064490bb@mail.gmail.com>

I am trying to run CruiseControlRB on Windows. My goal is to use for
testing the development of Watir.

I have installed Cruise (1.3.0) and Ruby (1.8.5) and SVN (1.5). And I
created the Watir project in cruise and manually did "rake cruise".

But when I start the Cruise server. I get an error ("Access is
denied"). It appears to come from the "svn log" command. However, I am
able to run the same command from the same directory manually without
a problem.

Any suggestions?


C:\cruise>ruby script/server --trace
cruise data root = 'C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator/.cruise'
** Ruby version is not up-to-date; loading cgi_multipart_eof_fix
=> Booting Mongrel (use 'script/server webrick' to force WEBrick)
=> Rails application starting on http://0.0.0.0:3333
=> Call with -d to detach
=> Ctrl-C to shutdown server
** Starting Mongrel listening at 0.0.0.0:3333
** Starting Rails with production environment...
** Rails loaded.
** Loading any Rails specific GemPlugins
cruise data root = 'C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator/.cruise'
** Signals ready.  INT => stop (no restart).
** Mongrel 1.1.2 available at 0.0.0.0:3333
** Use CTRL-C to stop.
[debug] Loading plugin builder_status
[debug] Loading plugin build_reaper
[debug] Loading plugin email_notifier
[debug] Loading plugin log_publisher
[debug] Loading plugin minimal_console_logger
[debug] Loading plugin project_logger
[info]  [2008-07-08 01:03:46] Builder for project 'watir' started
Logging to: C:/cruise/log/watir_builder.log
[debug] C:/Documents and Settings/Administrator/.cruise/projects/watir/work
Admi
nistrator$ svn --non-interactive log --limit 1 --revision HEAD:1 --verbose
--xml

Access is denied.
[debug] [2008-07-08 01:03:46] Sleeping
[debug] C:/Documents and Settings/Administrator/.cruise/projects/watir/work
Admi
nistrator$ svn --non-interactive log --limit 1 --revision HEAD:1 --verbose
--xml

Access is denied.

-- 
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CTO, WatirCraft LLC, http://www.watircraft.com
Lead Developer, Watir, http://wtr.rubyforge.org
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From angrez at gmail.com  Tue Jul  8 01:11:26 2008
From: angrez at gmail.com (Angrez Singh)
Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2008 10:41:26 +0530
Subject: [Wtr-development] FireWatir Migration Plan
In-Reply-To: <ade75c5b0807071348x38e061cby43d9804b05c1f583@mail.gmail.com>
References: <ade75c5b0807071348x38e061cby43d9804b05c1f583@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <e26bda3e0807072211w5cb81408k6e52c91d2e17f174@mail.gmail.com>

Bret,

Plan looks nice to me. Let me know when you have applied the patches. Also
regarding bug fixes for Firewatir, should we do that at OpenQA or Google
Code? Thoughts?

- Angrez

On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 2:18 AM, Bret Pettichord <bret at pettichord.com> wrote:

> Several weeks ago, I went ahead and applied most of the outstanding
> FireWatir patches to the repository hosted at googlecode. Actually, I
> applied all the patches i found, save one, the multi-browser patch. I
> had trouble getting this to work, mostly because I didn't realize that
> I needed to use a different XPI.
>
> Since then, I discoverd this web page that describes the multi-browser
> patch and the patches to the XPI, as well as compiled versions of them:
>
>
> http://coderrr.wordpress.com/2007/10/15/patch-to-firewatir-and-jssh-to-support-testing-with-multiple-concurrent-firefox-browsers/
>
> I'm getting back to the FireWatir code and this is my short-range
> plan:
>
> 1. Re-apply the multi-browser patch to the firewatir code on
> googlecode and verify that it works with these patched xpi's.
>
> 2. Verify that this works on both Windows and Mac/Linux. I have both
> Mac and Linux environments available, but will need to configure them
> for testing.
>
> 3. Create a new page on the Watir wiki (confluence) with the latest
> information on how to run FireWatir. This page will include the latest
> (patched) XPI's.
>
> 4. Migrate the FireWatir code to OpenQA.
>
> 5. Create a new Release of FireWatir based on the code and the xpi's hosted
> at OpenQA.
>
> One of the things we'll need to do after this is put together some
> protocol's for compiling and supporting the XPI's. I'm still learning
> a lot about this right now, but it does seem to me that we need to
> have a consistent method for versioning these, at the least.
>
> Does this plan make sense? Anything questions or suggestions?
>
> Bret
>
> --
> Bret Pettichord
> CTO, WatirCraft LLC, http://www.watircraft.com
> Lead Developer, Watir, http://wtr.rubyforge.org
> Blog (Essays), http://www.io.com/~wazmo/blog<http://www.io.com/%7Ewazmo/blog>
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From bret at pettichord.com  Tue Jul  8 09:53:53 2008
From: bret at pettichord.com (Bret Pettichord)
Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2008 08:53:53 -0500
Subject: [Wtr-development] FireWatir Migration Plan
In-Reply-To: <e26bda3e0807072211w5cb81408k6e52c91d2e17f174@mail.gmail.com>
References: <ade75c5b0807071348x38e061cby43d9804b05c1f583@mail.gmail.com>
	<e26bda3e0807072211w5cb81408k6e52c91d2e17f174@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <ade75c5b0807080653q3ad8925el3c977d68d47dc78d@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 12:11 AM, Angrez Singh <angrez at gmail.com> wrote:

> Bret,
>
> Plan looks nice to me. Let me know when you have applied the patches. Also
> regarding bug fixes for Firewatir, should we do that at OpenQA or Google
> Code? Thoughts?
>

Once i move the code to OpenQA, all work should be done there. I still need
to make sure that all all Firewatir committers have commit rights on OpenQA.

Bugs should be tracked using OpenQA's Jira system. I recently added a
"firewatir" component for tracking them.

Bret
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From tim.koops at gmail.com  Wed Jul  9 03:44:40 2008
From: tim.koops at gmail.com (Tim Koopmans)
Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2008 17:44:40 +1000
Subject: [Wtr-development] FireWatir Migration Plan
In-Reply-To: <ade75c5b0807071523y40659ff0y2dd0773ad4fee6c9@mail.gmail.com>
References: <ade75c5b0807071348x38e061cby43d9804b05c1f583@mail.gmail.com>
	<9D35ADD4-6C59-4BA7-A0AD-E29B77ABE69F@gmail.com>
	<ade75c5b0807071523y40659ff0y2dd0773ad4fee6c9@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <7A79DB50-04DD-49F4-BFA3-D81FB2084A44@gmail.com>

No problems Brett,

I can still use git locally (I would like to brush up my skills  
aswell) by checking out a version from svn into a local git  
repository. This links explains that concept well: http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2008/05/develop-with-git-on-google-code-project.html

Not sure what to call ur 3rd gem, watir+firewatir = icedwatir? :P

Look forward to helping out.

Regards,
Tim Koopmans
90kts.com

On 08/07/2008, at 8:23 AM, Bret Pettichord wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 5:08 PM, Tim Koopmans <tim.koops at gmail.com>  
> wrote:
>
> I have multiple environments available to test in (windows, mac,  
> linux) so would be happy to help test out new(er) builds of the  
> xpi's...
>
> That would be great as i'm still getting my environments up and  
> running.
>
> Do your plans still include merging firewatir and watir branches or  
> are you trying to sort out the interface (jssh) first?
> If you do merge, where do you intend to base/version the source  
> code? Will you be using svn or git?
>
> Step one is to get everything into a single repository. Right now  
> the plan is to import the FireWatir code into our SVN repo on  
> OpenQA. We don't have a git repo at OpenQA. I can see moving the  
> project to git at some point, but am reluctant to take that on right  
> now. I'm don't know git personally, and it is always a chore to move  
> a repo. Also i'm concerned that it may be too much for other Watir  
> developers right now. (At the same time, i suspect that it could  
> make things easier, so that is why i've given it some thought.)
>
> After we have everything in a single repository, my plan right now  
> is that we'll have three gem targets: watir, firewatir and a new gem  
> (watir-common?) where we'll start to migrate common code used by  
> both projects (both will depend on it). With time, the common code  
> should grow.
>
> Bret
>
> -- 
> Bret Pettichord
> CTO, WatirCraft LLC, http://www.watircraft.com
> Lead Developer, Watir, http://wtr.rubyforge.org
> Blog (Essays), http://www.io.com/~wazmo/blog
> MiniBlog (Links), http://feeds.feedburner.com/bretshotlist  
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From bret at pettichord.com  Thu Jul 10 18:24:25 2008
From: bret at pettichord.com (Bret Pettichord)
Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2008 17:24:25 -0500
Subject: [Wtr-development] Watir is now being testing continously
Message-ID: <ade75c5b0807101524w20d77c76kd78f003e7d88efd1@mail.gmail.com>

I'm pleased to announce that Watir is now being automatically tested every
time any changes are made to its code base. This is being done using
CruiseControl.rb. You can see the results of the most recent tests at
http://watirbuild.com.

I plan to also put FireWatir in CruiseControl.rb. This will help us make
sure that both implementations remain functional as we integrate their code
bases.

In my view, any one who isn't using CruiseControl to run their Watir tests
is really missing out on a great opportunity.

Bret

-- 
Bret Pettichord
CTO, WatirCraft LLC, http://www.watircraft.com
Lead Developer, Watir, http://wtr.rubyforge.org
Blog (Essays), http://www.io.com/~wazmo/blog
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From marekj.com at gmail.com  Thu Jul 10 19:07:23 2008
From: marekj.com at gmail.com (marekj)
Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2008 18:07:23 -0500
Subject: [Wtr-development] Watir is now being testing continously
In-Reply-To: <ade75c5b0807101524w20d77c76kd78f003e7d88efd1@mail.gmail.com>
References: <ade75c5b0807101524w20d77c76kd78f003e7d88efd1@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <ad6790aa0807101607t30e26b9bme70b1183b7ea29c7@mail.gmail.com>

Congrats, very watirful milestone.

I see there is a button 'build now' - not sure if you meant it to be public.
Of course I clicked it (yep, just testing what the button does) and looks
like I initiated build 1379.2

would you kindly make a short write up on how you set up the whole thing. I
would love implement cc.rb for my app tests.

marekj

On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 5:24 PM, Bret Pettichord <bret at pettichord.com>
wrote:

> I'm pleased to announce that Watir is now being automatically tested every
> time any changes are made to its code base. This is being done using
> CruiseControl.rb. You can see the results of the most recent tests at
> http://watirbuild.com.
>
> I plan to also put FireWatir in CruiseControl.rb. This will help us make
> sure that both implementations remain functional as we integrate their code
> bases.
>
> In my view, any one who isn't using CruiseControl to run their Watir tests
> is really missing out on a great opportunity.
>
> Bret
>
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From charley.baker at gmail.com  Thu Jul 10 19:13:28 2008
From: charley.baker at gmail.com (Charley Baker)
Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2008 17:13:28 -0600
Subject: [Wtr-development] Watir is now being testing continously
In-Reply-To: <ad6790aa0807101607t30e26b9bme70b1183b7ea29c7@mail.gmail.com>
References: <ade75c5b0807101524w20d77c76kd78f003e7d88efd1@mail.gmail.com>
	<ad6790aa0807101607t30e26b9bme70b1183b7ea29c7@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <f96821860807101613u15ddf92dk885208bf9ad4cd98@mail.gmail.com>

I did a write up on my blog. If it doesn't work let me know.


On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 5:07 PM, marekj <marekj.com at gmail.com> wrote:

> Congrats, very watirful milestone.
>
> I see there is a button 'build now' - not sure if you meant it to be
> public. Of course I clicked it (yep, just testing what the button does) and
> looks like I initiated build 1379.2
>
> would you kindly make a short write up on how you set up the whole thing. I
> would love implement cc.rb for my app tests.
>
> marekj
>
>
> On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 5:24 PM, Bret Pettichord <bret at pettichord.com>
> wrote:
>
>> I'm pleased to announce that Watir is now being automatically tested every
>> time any changes are made to its code base. This is being done using
>> CruiseControl.rb. You can see the results of the most recent tests at
>> http://watirbuild.com.
>>
>> I plan to also put FireWatir in CruiseControl.rb. This will help us make
>> sure that both implementations remain functional as we integrate their code
>> bases.
>>
>> In my view, any one who isn't using CruiseControl to run their Watir tests
>> is really missing out on a great opportunity.
>>
>> Bret
>>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Wtr-development mailing list
> Wtr-development at rubyforge.org
> http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/wtr-development
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From bret at pettichord.com  Fri Jul 11 10:14:31 2008
From: bret at pettichord.com (Bret Pettichord)
Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2008 09:14:31 -0500
Subject: [Wtr-development] Watir is now being testing continously
In-Reply-To: <ad6790aa0807101607t30e26b9bme70b1183b7ea29c7@mail.gmail.com>
References: <ade75c5b0807101524w20d77c76kd78f003e7d88efd1@mail.gmail.com>
	<ad6790aa0807101607t30e26b9bme70b1183b7ea29c7@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <ade75c5b0807110714j4ff14ab8y93203a0e624a95e0@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 6:07 PM, marekj <marekj.com at gmail.com> wrote:

> I see there is a button 'build now' - not sure if you meant it to be
> public. Of course I clicked it (yep, just testing what the button does) and
> looks like I initiated build 1379.2


I can turn off that button, but i thought it be fun to leave it on right
now. You are right: any one can run the tests by pressing the button. No
harm done.


> would you kindly make a short write up on how you set up the whole thing. I
> would love implement cc.rb for my app tests.
>

I plan to.


-- 
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CTO, WatirCraft LLC, http://www.watircraft.com
Lead Developer, Watir, http://wtr.rubyforge.org
Blog (Essays), http://www.io.com/~wazmo/blog
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From aidy.lewis at googlemail.com  Sat Jul 12 13:28:38 2008
From: aidy.lewis at googlemail.com (aidy lewis)
Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2008 18:28:38 +0100
Subject: [Wtr-development] Framework Submission(iteration 1)
Message-ID: <7ac2300c0807121028l13e64f1m16c125e89e8d79cc@mail.gmail.com>

A Watir framework that object models your AUT

http://wiki.openqa.org/display/WTR/Example+Frameworks

Run example from:
watirFramework\testScripts\gmail_test.rb

Product Backlog
Add XML logging
Read YAML test data

Aidy


From angrez at gmail.com  Mon Jul 14 07:58:55 2008
From: angrez at gmail.com (Angrez Singh)
Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2008 17:28:55 +0530
Subject: [Wtr-development] Firewatir Merge Status
Message-ID: <e26bda3e0807140458r6c7b82bex9409c0664149625c@mail.gmail.com>

Hi Bret,

I couldn't find Firewatir project on OpenQA SVN. I need to make couple of
changes regarding Firefox 3 support. Let me when I can go ahead and do that
in OpenQA SVN.

Regards,
Angrez
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From bret at pettichord.com  Mon Jul 14 09:39:29 2008
From: bret at pettichord.com (Bret Pettichord)
Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2008 08:39:29 -0500
Subject: [Wtr-development] Firewatir Merge Status
In-Reply-To: <e26bda3e0807140458r6c7b82bex9409c0664149625c@mail.gmail.com>
References: <e26bda3e0807140458r6c7b82bex9409c0664149625c@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <ade75c5b0807140639r7bb0c497v3a1ad2923efe1e1@mail.gmail.com>

I haven't moved it over yet. Please go ahead and make those changes to the
google code.

Bret

On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 6:58 AM, Angrez Singh <angrez at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Bret,
>
> I couldn't find Firewatir project on OpenQA SVN. I need to make couple of
> changes regarding Firefox 3 support. Let me when I can go ahead and do that
> in OpenQA SVN.
>
> Regards,
> Angrez
>
> _______________________________________________
> Wtr-development mailing list
> Wtr-development at rubyforge.org
> http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/wtr-development
>



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CTO, WatirCraft LLC, http://www.watircraft.com
Lead Developer, Watir, http://wtr.rubyforge.org
Blog (Essays), http://www.io.com/~wazmo/blog
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From bret at pettichord.com  Tue Jul 15 23:12:11 2008
From: bret at pettichord.com (Bret Pettichord)
Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 22:12:11 -0500
Subject: [Wtr-development] FireWatir status and plan
Message-ID: <ade75c5b0807152012s55ccd349m8e1cabdbc74a3086@mail.gmail.com>

This is an update on the FireWatir migration. First some minor updates about
what I did today.

I added a new page to the Watir Wiki about FireWatir. My goal is to
eventually migrate the FireWatir documentation to Confluence.

  http://wiki.openqa.org/display/WTR/FireWatir

I added what i could find about FireWatir 1.1.1 to the Release Notes

  http://code.google.com/p/firewatir/wiki/ReleaseNotes

Here's my plan right now, which is somewhat different from what I said
before.

1. Tomorrow I plan to migrate the firewatir code from googlecode to openqa.
This will include Angrez's latest fix.
2. I will post the latest xpi's (3 of them) on the FireWatir page on
confluence.
3. I will build FireWatir 1.2 based on the code migrated to openqa, and ask
your help in testing it. It should have several fixes from 1.1.1, but use
the same XPI's.

Once we get this stablized, then we will work on FireWatir 1.3, which will
include support for driving multiple concurrent browsers. This require's a
different set of XPI's, currently available at
http://coderrr.wordpress.com/2007/10/15/patch-to-firewatir-and-jssh-to-support-testing-with-multiple-concurrent-firefox-browsers/

Bret

-- 
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CTO, WatirCraft LLC, http://www.watircraft.com
Lead Developer, Watir, http://wtr.rubyforge.org
Blog (Essays), http://www.io.com/~wazmo/blog
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From angrez at gmail.com  Wed Jul 16 02:36:35 2008
From: angrez at gmail.com (Angrez Singh)
Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2008 12:06:35 +0530
Subject: [Wtr-development] FireWatir status and plan
In-Reply-To: <ade75c5b0807152012s55ccd349m8e1cabdbc74a3086@mail.gmail.com>
References: <ade75c5b0807152012s55ccd349m8e1cabdbc74a3086@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <e26bda3e0807152336m4b184805jfcdddea2df05c816@mail.gmail.com>

Sounds great .. We should also post the XPI's for Firefox 3. I have one for
Windows need to get others for Linux and Mac OS.

- Angrez

On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 8:42 AM, Bret Pettichord <bret at pettichord.com>
wrote:

> This is an update on the FireWatir migration. First some minor updates
> about what I did today.
>
> I added a new page to the Watir Wiki about FireWatir. My goal is to
> eventually migrate the FireWatir documentation to Confluence.
>
>   http://wiki.openqa.org/display/WTR/FireWatir
>
> I added what i could find about FireWatir 1.1.1 to the Release Notes
>
>   http://code.google.com/p/firewatir/wiki/ReleaseNotes
>
> Here's my plan right now, which is somewhat different from what I said
> before.
>
> 1. Tomorrow I plan to migrate the firewatir code from googlecode to openqa.
> This will include Angrez's latest fix.
> 2. I will post the latest xpi's (3 of them) on the FireWatir page on
> confluence.
> 3. I will build FireWatir 1.2 based on the code migrated to openqa, and ask
> your help in testing it. It should have several fixes from 1.1.1, but use
> the same XPI's.
>
> Once we get this stablized, then we will work on FireWatir 1.3, which will
> include support for driving multiple concurrent browsers. This require's a
> different set of XPI's, currently available at
> http://coderrr.wordpress.com/2007/10/15/patch-to-firewatir-and-jssh-to-support-testing-with-multiple-concurrent-firefox-browsers/
>
> Bret
>
> --
> Bret Pettichord
> CTO, WatirCraft LLC, http://www.watircraft.com
> Lead Developer, Watir, http://wtr.rubyforge.org
> Blog (Essays), http://www.io.com/~wazmo/blog<http://www.io.com/%7Ewazmo/blog>
> MiniBlog (Links), http://feeds.feedburner.com/bretshotlist
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From aidy.lewis at googlemail.com  Wed Jul 16 15:20:31 2008
From: aidy.lewis at googlemail.com (aidy lewis)
Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2008 20:20:31 +0100
Subject: [Wtr-development] Watir framework with Rspec Story Runner
Message-ID: <7ac2300c0807161220x5e9b8160l696b8ce2b78f66db@mail.gmail.com>

A Watir framework that object models your AUT and uses Rspec Story Runner

http://wiki.openqa.org/display/WTR/Example+Frameworks

Run example from:
watirFramework\runner\gmail.rb

(you will need to sign-out of gmail)

Aidy


From bret at pettichord.com  Wed Jul 16 15:58:36 2008
From: bret at pettichord.com (Bret Pettichord)
Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2008 14:58:36 -0500
Subject: [Wtr-development] FireWatir XPI's
Message-ID: <ade75c5b0807161258j2738a1f4u661b259638ffe347@mail.gmail.com>

I've taken all the "current" JSSH XPI's that i could find and put them on
this page.

  http://wiki.openqa.org/display/WTR/FireWatir

Please let me know if i've missed any. Or if my presentation isn't clear.

Bret


-- 
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CTO, WatirCraft LLC, http://www.watircraft.com
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From bret at pettichord.com  Wed Jul 16 17:53:54 2008
From: bret at pettichord.com (Bret Pettichord)
Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2008 16:53:54 -0500
Subject: [Wtr-development] FireWatir 1.2.0 available for testing
Message-ID: <ade75c5b0807161453h411f733bwa7ffe691a14eaafb@mail.gmail.com>

I just built a new version of the FireWatir gem and uploaded it here:

  http://wiki.openqa.org/display/WTR/FireWatir

I have only tested in on Windows XP with FF 2.0 so far. I am working on the
release notes for this. I would love to get help testing it on other
platforms.

BTW, this code is now in openqa, i'll send more details about that in a
separate message.

Bret

-- 
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CTO, WatirCraft LLC, http://www.watircraft.com
Lead Developer, Watir, http://wtr.rubyforge.org
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From bret at pettichord.com  Wed Jul 16 18:04:27 2008
From: bret at pettichord.com (Bret Pettichord)
Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2008 17:04:27 -0500
Subject: [Wtr-development] FireWatir Ruby code has migrated to openqa.
Message-ID: <ade75c5b0807161504j6ba0b278i97acda6745600c48@mail.gmail.com>

Today I migrated the Ruby code found at
https://firewatir.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/FireWatir (revision 147) and
imported it into https://svn.openqa.org/svn/watir/trunk/firewatir. This code
serves as basis for FireWatir 1.2 which is currently in testing.

Going forward, please commit all FireWatir patches to the openqa repository.
All FireWatir commiters should have commit rights to the Watir project.
Please contact me if you need these rights.

I'm still not sure what to do about the JSSH code also found at
firewatir.googlecode.com and don't have any immediate plans to migrate it.

Bret

-- 
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CTO, WatirCraft LLC, http://www.watircraft.com
Lead Developer, Watir, http://wtr.rubyforge.org
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From angrez at gmail.com  Thu Jul 17 02:25:18 2008
From: angrez at gmail.com (Angrez Singh)
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 11:55:18 +0530
Subject: [Wtr-development] FireWatir XPI's
In-Reply-To: <ade75c5b0807161258j2738a1f4u661b259638ffe347@mail.gmail.com>
References: <ade75c5b0807161258j2738a1f4u661b259638ffe347@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <e26bda3e0807162325t44199293m2da93627a2cf3216@mail.gmail.com>

Bret,

It would be great if we change the name for Firefox 3 XPI (Firewatr 1.2) for
windows. Currently is says "jssh-20080708-WINNT.xpi". Can we change it to
something relevant "jssh-firefox-3.x-WINNT.xpi" or something like that? I
think we should change the names of other XPI's accordingly also. What do
you say?

- Angrez

On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 1:28 AM, Bret Pettichord <bret at pettichord.com>
wrote:

> I've taken all the "current" JSSH XPI's that i could find and put them on
> this page.
>
>   http://wiki.openqa.org/display/WTR/FireWatir
>
> Please let me know if i've missed any. Or if my presentation isn't clear.
>
> Bret
>
>
> --
> Bret Pettichord
> CTO, WatirCraft LLC, http://www.watircraft.com
> Lead Developer, Watir, http://wtr.rubyforge.org
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From zeljko.filipin at gmail.com  Thu Jul 17 03:35:39 2008
From: zeljko.filipin at gmail.com (=?UTF-8?Q?=C5=BDeljko_Filipin?=)
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 09:35:39 +0200
Subject: [Wtr-development] [wtr-general] Watir framework with Rspec
	Story Runner
In-Reply-To: <7ac2300c0807161220x5e9b8160l696b8ce2b78f66db@mail.gmail.com>
References: <7ac2300c0807161220x5e9b8160l696b8ce2b78f66db@mail.gmail.com>
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On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 9:20 PM, aidy lewis <aidy.lewis at googlemail.com>
wrote:
> A Watir framework that object models your AUT and uses Rspec Story Runner

Thanks Aidy for posting this. I am very interested in moving my tests from
test/unit to rspec (and hopefully to story runner). My first impression is
that this framework is to complicated for my taste. To many files and
folders. In any case, thanks for all the work, it is great to have some code
to start with.

?eljko
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From bret at pettichord.com  Thu Jul 17 10:36:14 2008
From: bret at pettichord.com (Bret Pettichord)
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 09:36:14 -0500
Subject: [Wtr-development] FireWatir XPI's
In-Reply-To: <e26bda3e0807162325t44199293m2da93627a2cf3216@mail.gmail.com>
References: <ade75c5b0807161258j2738a1f4u661b259638ffe347@mail.gmail.com>
	<e26bda3e0807162325t44199293m2da93627a2cf3216@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <ade75c5b0807170736r139b2350mdda4a8c4fc7f636c@mail.gmail.com>

I agree. I also think that the version/name of the xpi should be visible and
identifying when you look at it from within Firefox. So far, it seems like
they all identify themselves the same (v. 0.94 JSSh).

With the layout of the new FireWatir page, users don't even need to think
about the filenames, and will therefore be focussing even more on the
self-identification of the plugins.

Bret

On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 1:25 AM, Angrez Singh <angrez at gmail.com> wrote:

> Bret,
>
> It would be great if we change the name for Firefox 3 XPI (Firewatr 1.2)
> for windows. Currently is says "jssh-20080708-WINNT.xpi". Can we change it
> to something relevant "jssh-firefox-3.x-WINNT.xpi" or something like that? I
> think we should change the names of other XPI's accordingly also. What do
> you say?
>
> - Angrez
>
> On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 1:28 AM, Bret Pettichord <bret at pettichord.com>
> wrote:
>
>> I've taken all the "current" JSSH XPI's that i could find and put them on
>> this page.
>>
>>   http://wiki.openqa.org/display/WTR/FireWatir
>>
>> Please let me know if i've missed any. Or if my presentation isn't clear.
>>
>> Bret
>>
>>
>> --
>> Bret Pettichord
>> CTO, WatirCraft LLC, http://www.watircraft.com
>> Lead Developer, Watir, http://wtr.rubyforge.org
>> Blog (Essays), http://www.io.com/~wazmo/blog<http://www.io.com/%7Ewazmo/blog>
>> MiniBlog (Links), http://feeds.feedburner.com/bretshotlist
>>
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>> Wtr-development at rubyforge.org
>> http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/wtr-development
>>
>
>
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From angrez at gmail.com  Fri Jul 25 07:30:00 2008
From: angrez at gmail.com (Angrez Singh)
Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2008 17:00:00 +0530
Subject: [Wtr-development] any plan to build a xpi extension for
	firefox3 on linux?
In-Reply-To: <e928b1b1-ffdd-4d3d-be1c-913c1ef9c04f@j1g2000prb.googlegroups.com>
References: <7b80de59-2ed1-477f-9585-d6b8d826ed6c@l42g2000hsc.googlegroups.com>
	<f81b1250807220453y648cfcc8g596f3b0c6a0cea58@mail.gmail.com>
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	<e26bda3e0807230454i5d011aa7h34f0bd8f733a31e1@mail.gmail.com>
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	<f81b1250807240110q108c3424l5efd90aeae57eaa8@mail.gmail.com>
	<e26bda3e0807240223g14bc844bwf68b9dd17ddb2749@mail.gmail.com>
	<e928b1b1-ffdd-4d3d-be1c-913c1ef9c04f@j1g2000prb.googlegroups.com>
Message-ID: <e26bda3e0807250430w402e3d06g7de008486e3a786f@mail.gmail.com>

Linux XPI for FF3 on linux is here:
http://groups.google.com/group/firewatir/web/jssh-20080725-Linux.xpi.tar.gz

Can somebody test this on his/her machine and make sure that it works.

Bret,

Can we add this to OpenQA wiki page added for FireWatir?

- Angrez

On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 4:26 PM, Harry <blogdriver at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> Hi ! Finally I made it
>
> thank you very much, I don't know whats the magic in the jssh.zip code
> and makefile, I only change the first few line to
> topsrcdir       = /home/harry/myprogram/firefox/mozilla
>
> srcdir          = /home/harry/myprogram/firefox/mozilla/extensions/jssh
>
> VPATH           = /home/harry/myprogram/firefox/mozilla/extensions/jssh
>
> and do exactally what you told me .so everything is done! but I dont
> know whether this will affect the use of others.
>
>
>
> here is the xpi file. I install it with the system default firefox3
> (which was not compiled with jssh ) and it works!
> http://groups.google.com/group/firewatir/web/jssh-20080725-Linux.xpi.tar.gz
>
> thank you again I can only do this after work,and this is pretty much
> fun with your help!
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From aidy.lewis at googlemail.com  Wed Jul 30 12:20:26 2008
From: aidy.lewis at googlemail.com (aidy lewis)
Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2008 17:20:26 +0100
Subject: [Wtr-development] WTR-233
Message-ID: <7ac2300c0807300920v72ca9d87wcda1e61a4acbe88e@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

Could someone assign this task to me in Jira please?

Aidy


From bret at pettichord.com  Wed Jul 30 18:07:03 2008
From: bret at pettichord.com (Bret Pettichord)
Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2008 17:07:03 -0500
Subject: [Wtr-development] Supporting Multiple Browsers with FireWatir. Not.
Message-ID: <ade75c5b0807301507h2ba2debata90217abcfa2b672@mail.gmail.com>

Last fall, a popular patch was made to FireWatir to allow it to drive
multiple browsers concurrently.

I have not merged this code into the trunk of FireWatir, and have
no short term plans to do so. Mainly, this is because it requires a
recompiled XPI, which leads to several complications that I'm reluctant
to manage right now.

1. We have various versions of the XPI floating around as it is, all
self-identifying at version 0.94. We need a system for managing
versions before we can support multiple versions effectively.

2. The new XPI changes the command line API for Firefox in a way that
breaks compatibility for FireWatir. In other words, the unpatched
FireWatir will not work with the patched XPI, and vice versa. In my
view, the new FireWatir should work with either XPI. It would be
friendlier, especially since users can't really tell which version of
the XPI they have installed. (See #1).

3. We would also need to recompile the XPI for FF 3.0 on all
platforms.

4. I am not currently configured to compile the XPI's on any
platform. Some of the changes I'm suggesting are not complicated
(1. add versioning; 2. make the command line backwards compatible;
3. compile for FF3), but i would need to set up the various
environments, which would take me a couple of days. (If someone wants
to sponsor this work, I'll happily reconsider).

Instead, I plan to stick with using the old XPI and would
like to see if we can find a non-compiled alternative to JSSH such as
one of the following:

* SD Connector from the Komodo project.
http://blogs.activestate.com/shanec/2008/05/jssh-replacemen.html
* MozRepl from the MozLab project. http://hyperstruct.net/projects/mozlab

Has any one tried these out?

Bret


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Lead Developer, Watir, http://wtr.rubyforge.org
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From paul.rogers at shaw.ca  Wed Jul 30 19:07:40 2008
From: paul.rogers at shaw.ca (Paul Rogers)
Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2008 17:07:40 -0600
Subject: [Wtr-development] Supporting Multiple Browsers with FireWatir.
	Not.
In-Reply-To: <ade75c5b0807301507h2ba2debata90217abcfa2b672@mail.gmail.com>
References: <ade75c5b0807301507h2ba2debata90217abcfa2b672@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <e7eaafaa0807301607g25c7c87fscac35d1ce4d6217b@mail.gmail.com>

I dont remember having to recompile jssh to make the multi browser
thing work, just had to change out a javascript like file in the
chrome dir.

Paul

On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 4:07 PM, Bret Pettichord <bret at pettichord.com> wrote:
> Last fall, a popular patch was made to FireWatir to allow it to drive
> multiple browsers concurrently.
>
> I have not merged this code into the trunk of FireWatir, and have
> no short term plans to do so. Mainly, this is because it requires a
> recompiled XPI, which leads to several complications that I'm reluctant
> to manage right now.
>
> 1. We have various versions of the XPI floating around as it is, all
> self-identifying at version 0.94. We need a system for managing
> versions before we can support multiple versions effectively.
>
> 2. The new XPI changes the command line API for Firefox in a way that
> breaks compatibility for FireWatir. In other words, the unpatched
> FireWatir will not work with the patched XPI, and vice versa. In my
> view, the new FireWatir should work with either XPI. It would be
> friendlier, especially since users can't really tell which version of
> the XPI they have installed. (See #1).
>
> 3. We would also need to recompile the XPI for FF 3.0 on all
> platforms.
>
> 4. I am not currently configured to compile the XPI's on any
> platform. Some of the changes I'm suggesting are not complicated
> (1. add versioning; 2. make the command line backwards compatible;
> 3. compile for FF3), but i would need to set up the various
> environments, which would take me a couple of days. (If someone wants
> to sponsor this work, I'll happily reconsider).
>
> Instead, I plan to stick with using the old XPI and would
> like to see if we can find a non-compiled alternative to JSSH such as
> one of the following:
>
> * SD Connector from the Komodo project.
> http://blogs.activestate.com/shanec/2008/05/jssh-replacemen.html
> * MozRepl from the MozLab project. http://hyperstruct.net/projects/mozlab
>
> Has any one tried these out?
>
> Bret
>
>
> --
> Bret Pettichord
> CTO, WatirCraft LLC, http://www.watircraft.com
> Lead Developer, Watir, http://wtr.rubyforge.org
> Blog (Essays), http://www.io.com/~wazmo/blog
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>
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From bret at pettichord.com  Wed Jul 30 19:29:03 2008
From: bret at pettichord.com (Bret Pettichord)
Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2008 18:29:03 -0500
Subject: [Wtr-development] Supporting Multiple Browsers with FireWatir.
	Not.
In-Reply-To: <e7eaafaa0807301607g25c7c87fscac35d1ce4d6217b@mail.gmail.com>
References: <ade75c5b0807301507h2ba2debata90217abcfa2b672@mail.gmail.com>
	<e7eaafaa0807301607g25c7c87fscac35d1ce4d6217b@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <ade75c5b0807301629m1c1566e1ld134cde932fe5b20@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 6:07 PM, Paul Rogers <paul.rogers at shaw.ca> wrote:

> I dont remember having to recompile jssh to make the multi browser
> thing work, just had to change out a javascript like file in the
> chrome dir.


I just read the page


http://coderrr.wordpress.com/2007/10/15/patch-to-firewatir-and-jssh-to-support-testing-with-multiple-concurrent-firefox-browsers/

more closely, and i see that you are correct. Thanks for the clarification.

That makes it easier to maintain than I realized. I'll have to rething my
position on this.

Bret

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From paul.rogers at shaw.ca  Wed Jul 30 19:49:15 2008
From: paul.rogers at shaw.ca (Paul Rogers)
Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2008 17:49:15 -0600
Subject: [Wtr-development] Supporting Multiple Browsers with FireWatir.
	Not.
In-Reply-To: <ade75c5b0807301629m1c1566e1ld134cde932fe5b20@mail.gmail.com>
References: <ade75c5b0807301507h2ba2debata90217abcfa2b672@mail.gmail.com>
	<e7eaafaa0807301607g25c7c87fscac35d1ce4d6217b@mail.gmail.com>
	<ade75c5b0807301629m1c1566e1ld134cde932fe5b20@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <e7eaafaa0807301649n34213e31qc9693aee83dba9c6@mail.gmail.com>

Im fairly certain that you are correct about the patched xpi not
working with the unpatched firewatir.rb though. There are many times
Ive launched firefox ( from code ) with

firefox -jssh 9997

where 9997 is the jssh port to use

on an unpatched xpi, only to find the browser vist www.9997.com

I dont know an  easy way round this.

Ive had a lot more success with having a browser already open and
letting firewatir attach to it


Paul

On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 5:29 PM, Bret Pettichord <bret at pettichord.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 6:07 PM, Paul Rogers <paul.rogers at shaw.ca> wrote:
>>
>> I dont remember having to recompile jssh to make the multi browser
>> thing work, just had to change out a javascript like file in the
>> chrome dir.
>
> I just read the page
>
>
> http://coderrr.wordpress.com/2007/10/15/patch-to-firewatir-and-jssh-to-support-testing-with-multiple-concurrent-firefox-browsers/
>
> more closely, and i see that you are correct. Thanks for the clarification.
>
> That makes it easier to maintain than I realized. I'll have to rething my
> position on this.
>
> Bret
>
> --
> Bret Pettichord
> CTO, WatirCraft LLC, http://www.watircraft.com
> Lead Developer, Watir, http://wtr.rubyforge.org
> Blog (Essays), http://www.io.com/~wazmo/blog
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>
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From bret at pettichord.com  Thu Jul 31 16:08:34 2008
From: bret at pettichord.com (Bret Pettichord)
Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 15:08:34 -0500
Subject: [Wtr-development] WTR-233
In-Reply-To: <7ac2300c0807300920v72ca9d87wcda1e61a4acbe88e@mail.gmail.com>
References: <7ac2300c0807300920v72ca9d87wcda1e61a4acbe88e@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <ade75c5b0807311308j57cfb824m76b45035370b4da7@mail.gmail.com>

http://jira.openqa.org/browse/WTR-233

Aidy,

I've requested that Patrick (who manages OpenQA) give you commit rights to
Watir, which is needed before we can assign a ticket to you.

To me this looks like a hard to problem to solve. I'm curious about your
intentions. Have you been working on this? Do you have a solution?

Bret

On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 11:20 AM, aidy lewis <aidy.lewis at googlemail.com>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Could someone assign this task to me in Jira please?
>
> Aidy
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