Watir on Ruby 1.9.1

[Jari Bakken]

Hello,

I've made some progress getting Watir to run on Ruby 1.9.1 using the preview installer provided by the RubyInstaller guys (http://rubyinstaller.org/downloads/).

A recent benchmark comparing the various interpreters on Windows (http://antoniocangiano.com/2009/08/04/a-faster-ruby-on-windows-is-possible/) show some pretty incredible speedups using the mingw32 interpreters, with 1.9.1 being the fastest overall.

Here's the output from Watir's test suite on 1.9.1:

  http://gist.github.com/162433

8 failures and 21 errors - that's not too bad! The errors are caused by some specific missing properties/methods on OLE objects, which is a bit strange since most of the tests are passing (which means the OLE stuff in general is working just fine on 1.9). I'm not very familiar with the Windows APIs/Win32OLE, so it would be great if someone with more experience in that field want to step up and take a look.

I've pushed my work so far to the ruby191 branch of my fork:

  http://github.com/jarib/watir/tree/ruby191

Some things to note if you want to experiment:

* The version of the user-choices gem (a Watir dependency) on RubyForge is not 1.9-compatible. This fork on GitHub fixes that issue:

  http://github.com/qoobaa/user-choices/tree/master

To install:

  gem sources --add http://gems.github.com

  gem install qoobaa-user-choices s4t-utils xml-simple

  

* The modified Win32OLE library included with Watir (lib/watir/win32ole/wind32ole.c) doesn't work on 1.9. Since

the functionality it provides isn't critical for Watir to work, I've just made a quick workaround for now. This means that IE#modal_dialog won't work on 1.9 until someone looks at (a) the extension (which adds a connect_unknown function to the WIN32OLE class) and (b) the DL code in lib/watir/win32.rb.

[Jari Bakken]

I figured out the WIN32OLE issue - all the tests are now passing on 1.9. 

[Michael Hwee]

Good job, Jari.

Does it work with Watir 1.6.1 or 1.6.2?

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From: Jari Bakken <jari....@gmail.com>
To: watir-...@googlegroups.com
Sent: Wednesday, August 5, 2009 3:51:55 PM
Subject: [wtr-general] Re: Watir on Ruby 1.9.1

[Jari Bakken]

On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 5:36 PM, Michael Hwee <michae...@yahoo.com> wrote:

Good job, Jari.

Does it work with Watir 1.6.1 or 1.6.2?

Nope. At the moment you need my ruby191 branch from GitHub:

http://github.com/jarib/watir/tree/ruby191 

I'll make sure it get merged to master before the next release of Watir - if no one has any objections.

Would be great if someone else could try it out also - both the FireWatir and Watir tests should pass on 1.9.1 using this branch.

Bret: Any chance of getting watirbuild.com back up again?

[Jari Bakken]

On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 2:18 AM, Jari Bakken<jari....@gmail.com> wrote:
> At the moment you need my ruby191 branch from GitHub:
> http://github.com/jarib/watir/tree/ruby191
> I'll make sure it get merged to master before the next release of Watir - if
> no one has any objections.

I've pushed the 1.9 fixes to Bret's master on GitHub and all tests are
passing for FireWatir and Watir on both 1.8.6 and 1.9.1.

[Bret Pettichord]

On Aug 6, 7:18 pm, Jari Bakken <jari.bak...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Bret: Any chance of getting watirbuild.com back up again?

I'll see if i can get on this this week. Thanks for your work on the
1.9.1 support.

[Michael Hwee]

This is so great, Jari.
Thanks for working on this.

----- Original Message ----
From: Jari Bakken <jari....@gmail.com>
To: watir-...@googlegroups.com
Sent: Sunday, August 9, 2009 3:49:59 AM
Subject: [wtr-general] Re: Watir on Ruby 1.9.1

[karimnumerouno]

I did a similar thing with firewatir

for the user-choices gem, there lies a user-choices folder where in we
need to change the syntax within some of the files for every word
where there is a When with a colon e.g (When :) we need replace the
color with the word “then”

in ubuntu this is to be done for 3 files in the user-choices folder
’sources.rb”, ‘conversions.rb’,'arglist-stragergies.rb’

and it works like a charm.....

feels great again to be able to use this great tool at better
preformance

On Aug 10, 8:16 am, Michael Hwee <michael_h...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> This is so great, Jari.
> Thanks for working on this.
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Jari Bakken <jari.bak...@gmail.com>
> To: watir-...@googlegroups.com
> Sent: Sunday, August 9, 2009 3:49:59 AM
> Subject: [wtr-general] Re: Watir on Ruby 1.9.1
>

[karimnumerouno]

I did a similar thing with firewatir

for the user-choices gem, there lies a user-choices folder where in we
need to change the syntax within some of the files for every word
where there is a When with a colon e.g (When :) we need replace the

color with the word “ When then”