Watir WebDriver — Handling New Window

Situation:

1. You are in Parent Page.
2. Clicking link “Open” in Parent page.
3. It opens new window
4. You need to do actions  there and come back to your parent window

Solution:

To Click the Link

require 'rubygems'
require 'watir-webdriver'
ff=Watir::Browser.new :ff
ff.goto("website.com")
ff.link(:text,'open').click

To handle the New window and performing some actions within that window,

ff.window(:title,/TITLE of the new window/i).use do
ff.send_keys('SampleText')
ff.button(:id,'insert').click
puts ff.title #returns the new window title
end

within a loop The button belongs to Newly opened window.

puts ff.title #returns the parent window title

Watir-webdriver cheatsheet

Getting Started

Load the Watir Webdriver library

require 'watir-webdriver'

Open a browser (Ex: Internet Explorer)

driver = Watir::Browser.new :ie

Go to a specified URL

driver.goto 'http://www.orbitz.com/'

Close the browser

driver.close

Access an Element

Type something in the Text box or text area

driver.text_field(:id,'airOrigin').set("MAA")

To Clear the text from text field 

driver.text_field(:id,'airOrigin').clear

Button

To click the button
driver.button(:id,'BUTTON_ID'').click

Drop down list

To select the value from list
driver.select_list(:id,'airStartTime').select("1 am")

To get the selected value from select field
 driver.select_list(:id,'airStartTime').value

Check box

To clik the check box

driver.checkbox(:id,'airNonStopsPreferred').click
OR
driver.checkbox(:id,'airNonStopsPreferred').set
To know the clicked? or not ?
driver.checkbox(:id,'airNonStopsPreferred').set?

Radio button driver.radio(:id,'htlChoice').click

To verify Flights radio button selected or not

driver.radio(:id,'htlChoice').set?

#if it returns TRUE then radio button already selected.

To get the title of the webpage puts driver.title

Return true if the specified text appears on the TAG

 puts driver.li(:class,'welcomeText').text.include("Welcome to Orbitz")

To Click SPAN Elements driver.span(:text,'Find Flights').click