[Watir-webdriver] : How to retrieve/print text from a table

watir webdriver

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Aug 14, 2013, 10:56:22 AM8/14/13

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Is there any way how to print the text from the table?
I've managed to verify if the text is present on the page or not but not sure how to print the text.Its a table with 20 rows.

Then(/^I should see "(.*?)" on the page$/) do |expected_result|
puts (@browser.text.include? expected_result).should == true
puts @browser.td(:text => expected_result) ###Here I want to print the expected_result which is nothing but best
end

Sample HTML :
<tr>
<th>Generation</th>
<td>best</td>
</tr>

Any suggestions ?
Thanks in-advance...

watir webdriver

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Aug 15, 2013, 7:28:00 AM8/15/13

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Any suggestions plz....

Tadeu Panato

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Aug 15, 2013, 8:25:09 AM8/15/13

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just simple print the word best or anything in the cell? man its simple, you aleredy use that

example

<body>

<table>

<tr>

<td>blabla 1</td>

<td>xoxoxo 2</td>

</tr>

<tr>

<td>blblablalba 3</td>

<td>yommamma 4</td>

</tr>

</table>

</body>

irb:

table = b.table

#you can use searching the :text but i prefer use the index

puts t.td(:text => "blabla 1").text #should print "blabla 1"

puts t.td(:index => 3).text #should print "yommamma 4"

watir webdriver

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Aug 15, 2013, 9:45:00 AM8/15/13

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Thanks a lot Panato...

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Oscar Rieken

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Aug 15, 2013, 10:32:20 AM8/15/13

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I personally would go and as the devs to put in some id's or I would go add them myself. because I think that checking to make sure you see text by locating the element by that same text doesnt make a whole lot of sense to me. if it fails its going to throw an element not found

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Tadeu Panato

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Aug 15, 2013, 10:45:48 AM8/15/13

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I agree, but this is just a simple example. in real life app it should have id or class or something else.... :)

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