[Wtr-general] Using Watir/Ruby scripts

[Michael Bolton]

Tonight's example: parsing an HTML document to find a regular expression.
I'm not aware of any simple way to get a shell script to download a page,
follow a link, grab a graphic from a page, etc., etc., etc.  
 
The purpose of any powerful language is to make stuff easier.  Shell scripts
are often immensely practical, but they tend to be conceptually simpler and
less powerful.
 
---Michael B.

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From: wtr-general-bounces at rubyforge.org
[mailto:wtr-general-bounces at rubyforge.org] On Behalf Of Chintakrindi
Meghanath 
Sent: February 9, 2006 2:39 PM
To: wtr-general at rubyforge.org
Subject: Re: [Wtr-general] Using Watir/Ruby scripts


Hi 
 
Thanks, my next question is what are the advantages using ruby/watir scripts
rather than conventional shell scripts
 
Thanks
Meghanath
 
 

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[mailto:wtr-general-bounces at rubyforge.org]On Behalf Of Pierre Garigue
Sent: Thursday, February 09, 2006 2:09 PM
To: wtr-general at rubyforge.org
Subject: Re: [Wtr-general] Using Watir/Ruby scripts


you can certainly use Ruby for testing other things than web sites.
 
It detepends what you want to do regression testing on.
 
have a look at 
http://rubyforge.org/
 
Cheers
Pierre 

-----Original Message-----
From: Chintakrindi Meghanath
[mailto:ChintakrindiMeghana at managementdynamics.com]
Sent: Thursday, February 09, 2006 1:58 PM
To: wtr-general at rubyforge.org
Subject: [Wtr-general] Using Watir/Ruby scripts


Hi
 
I hear that many companies uses shell scripts(using bourne shell or any
other ...) in the testing cycle.
So, my question is can we use watir/ruby scripts instead of these.
 
 

Thanks

Meghanath

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