#Cheat Sheet

##Selenium and Ruby

Gem install selenium-webdriver

how to use it

require 'selenium-webdriver'

driver = Selenium::WebDriver.for :firefox

After window has popped up

driver.get "http://google.com"

to find an element

element = driver.find_element name: "q"

element.send_keys "Hello!"

element.submit

get driver title

driver.title

Check the title of the page sstarts with "hello"

driver.title.downcase.start_with? "hello!" 

to quit

driver.quit

reset driver

driver = nil

###more commands browser = Selenium::WebDriver.for :firefox

sends you to another browser

browser.navigate.to "www.example.co.uk"

get page source

browser.page_source

browser.page_source.match /Hello/

execute some javascript

browser.execute_script "alert('Hello');"

####methods

browser.manage.methods - Object.new.methods

finding elements

a = browser.find_element({name: "textarea"}) - find the box with the name textarea. You dont need the parenthesis
a = browser.find_element name: "textarea"

finding CSS selectors

browser.find_element css: "ul.navigation li"

to find something witout a name

a = browser.find_element tagname ".pageheader p"

using xpath

a = browser.find_element xpath "//h2[@class='someclass'"

browser.find_elements tagname: "p" - will return array of all tagnames on page

browser.find_elements(css: "p").size #getS how many i think

property methods

lets assume

a = browser.find_element name: "searchbox"

a.size #gets the size

a.displayed? #is it displayed?

a.attribute "tabindex"

a.attribute "type"

a.attribute "value" #whats inside

a.selected? #if a certain checkbox has been ticked

a.submit #can be called on any input element when submitting a form, the equivalent to pressing enter

wait = Selenium::WebDriver::Wait.new(timeout:51) #wait until a page is fully loaded

a = wait.until {browser.find_element(tag_name: "h1")}

options = a.find_elements(tag_name: "option")

options.each {|o| o.click if o.text == "Choice }