Headless Problem

[Eachus Lonny]

Operating environment: Mac OS X 10.8.3, Ruby 2.0.0.

I have installed the headless gem, but it is not working for me. Watir-webdriver works fine, but headless did not.

This is my code:

require 'watir-webdriver'

require 'headless'

headless = Headless.new

headless.start

b = Watir::Browser.start 'google.com'

...

b.close

headless.destroy

This all works just fine, with no error messages… but it's not headless. I get a normal Firefox window. (Firefox is my default browser.)

Xvfb is installed and seems to be working fine:

$ which xvfb

#=> /opt/X11/bin/xvfb

I would appreciate some help if anyone has run into this before. I did not find this particular problem in my watir-general digests.

Thanks.

Lonny Eachus

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[Oscar Rieken]

https://github.com/leonid-shevtsov/headless  

Note: Headless will NOT hide most applications on OS X. Here is a detailed explanation

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[Eachus Lonny]

I feel that this most definitely deserves mention in the "headless" entry on watir-webdriver.com. A lot of Ruby developers use OS X and Firefox. The fact that I can't use headless may make things more difficult for me. I may be tempted to use Mechanize instead for this application, which would be a shame because I greatly prefer Watir.

So, then: what is the preferred method of using a headless browser with Watir on OS X? And: eventually, this application will likely be ported to Heroku. Is there a way to use a headless browser with Watir on Heroku?

Lonny Eachus

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On May 6, 2013, at 1:29 AM, watir-...@googlegroups.com wrote:

  Today's Topic Summary

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• Headless Problem [2 Updates]

 Headless Problem 

Oscar Rieken <bis...@gmail.com> May 05 01:47AM -0400  

https://github.com/leonid-shevtsov/headless
*Note: Headless will NOT hide most applications on OS X. Here is a detailed
explanation<https://github.com/leonid-shevtsov/headless/issues/31#issuecomment-8933108>
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[Oscar Rieken]

I use phantomjs to run headless If i need to 

http://watirmelon.com/2013/02/05/watir-webdriver-with-ghostdriver-on-osx-headless-browser-testing/

Alister Scott wrote a good intro a while back

[Eachus Lonny]

More Watir questions:

I used to use Watir extensively at work, but it has been a little while. Using watir-webdriver, does Watir remain updated when a page is changed via JavaScript, like the old Watir used to? This is rather important to my work.

If not: I need to know how to refresh Watir's snapshot of the DOM. If so, wonderful; I can use it as before.

I also notice that the old "attach" method is no longer available. Is there a way to attach a Watir browser instance to an existing browser window?


Lonny Eachus
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[Željko Filipin]

On Mon, May 6, 2013 at 6:31 PM, Eachus Lonny <lon...@gmail.com> wrote:

I feel that this most definitely deserves mention in the "headless" entry on watir-webdriver.com.

We are looking for contributors. Please let me know if you would like to update the page.

Željko

[Željko Filipin]

On Mon, May 6, 2013 at 7:12 PM, Eachus Lonny <lon...@gmail.com> wrote:

Using watir-webdriver, does Watir remain updated when a page is changed via JavaScript, like the old Watir used to?

I think so. Try and let us know if you experience any problems.

 

I also notice that the old "attach" method is no longer available. Is there a way to attach a Watir browser instance to an existing browser window?

No. There is a bug from 2009:

https://code.google.com/p/selenium/issues/detail?id=18

There is a way to attach to windows created by the script and javascript popups, if that would help:

http://watirwebdriver.com/browser-popups/

http://watirwebdriver.com/javascript-dialogs/

Željko
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