Getting started with Ruby | Selenium Users

Note|  Text in Blue [#PYTHON], Red [#RUBY], and Orange [#JAVA] can be edited or mentioned important for the entire blog. All the posts are practically done by me.

Ruby Installation

In Windows, you can use either RubyInstaller or pik.

1| Download rubyinstaller
2| Check Ruby version
Start > Interactive Ruby
RUBY_VERSION

3| Install Selenium WebDriver library for Ruby
selenium-webdriver-2.41.0.gem
INSTALL > gem install selenium-webdriver

4| Download Devkit before installing json
5| Extract DevKit to path C:\Ruby200\DevKit
6| Open cmd prompt
> cd C:\Ruby200\DevKit
> ruby dk.rb init
> ruby dk.rb review
> ruby dk.rb install


INSTALL > gem install json

7| Download Ruby DLTK plugin for Eclipse IDE [Go to Eclipse Marketplace and search Ruby DLTK]

8| Go to Windows > Preferences > Ruby - Interpreters

9| Click on 'Add' and Locate Ruby.exe  "C:\Ruby200\bin\ruby.exe"

10| Create a New Ruby Project
Right click on package Explorer > New > others 

11| Type 'Ruby'.
12| Select 'Ruby Project' and press Finish.

13| Create a new Ruby module.
Right click on package > New > Ruby module

14| Develop your Ruby selenium script like sample given below

require "selenium-webdriver"

driver = Selenium::WebDriver.for :firefox
driver.navigate.to "http://google.com"

element = driver.find_element(:name, 'q')
element.send_keys "Prashanth Sams"
element.submit

driver.quit

15| Rick click on program Run > Ruby Script



Note| 
1| Rack is a web server interface used for developing web applications in Ruby; Rack is used by almost all Ruby web frameworks and libraries, such as Ruby On Rails and Sinatra.
2| RubyGems is a package manager for Ruby programming language.