Watir on Rails

Watir is a tool for user acceptance testing and in general can be used to control a browser to do automated task. Since I am using the standard Rails's testing framework, and I run my tests with rake test, I thought why not to use watir test in a similar way. There is a plugin, Watir on Rails, that integrates Ruby on Rails with Waitr. You only need to run rake test:watir to test your application with rake. The test can be written in a similar way of the other Rails' tests. For instance:



How to use the example:

1. gem install watir # install watir
2. script/plugin install git://github.com/chip/watir-on-rails.git
3. put the file in test/watir or script/generate watir SuccessfulLogin to generate a test
4. run: rake test:watir
5. watch the browser doing your job ;-)
6. Start learning from the cheat sheet:http://wiki.openqa.org/display/WTR/Ruby+Cheat+Sheet
   

Watir need your web server on, if you are testing a local application, so you should run:

mongrel_rails start -e test # if you are using mongrel

Links:

Watir on Rails - Watir on Rails web page
Watir on Rails at Github
Watir - the official web site