WATiR installation with eclipse

For WatiR installation we required eclipse , ruby dltk plugin ,and obviously ruby.

1. Download Ruby from
http://rubyinstaller.org/downloads/

For ruby 2.0 you can use this direct link
http://rubyforge.org/frs/download.php/76804/rubyinstaller-2.0.0-p0.exe

2.Eclipse Download from
www.eclipse.org/downloads/

3.For dltk download use the following link

http://download.eclipse.org/technology/dltk/downloads/
or,
http://download.eclipse.org/technology/dltk/downloads/drops/R4.0/R-4.0-201206120903/

Now add ruby dltk with your eclipse
Now open your eclipse and go to Help -> Install New Software

Click Add button and a small window will appear

Now click “Archive” button

And browse your dlt file and click Ok button now

Now check the check box and click next button

Click “Next” button

Now it install the software

Now after installing goto File -> New ->Other and select Ruby Project

Now we should see this window

Where we should provide project name and we need to configure the ruby interpreters click

“configure interpreters” link

And click Add button and browse the ruby executable

And click OK button in all window and finally we get this type of window

Click “Yes” button
Now add an empty ruby script file

Now set environmental variable gem with its path like – “E:\Ruby200\bin”

now open cmd and type – gem install watir
the out put should be –
C:\Users\tanmay>gem install watir
Fetching: commonwatir-4.0.0.gem (100%)
Successfully installed commonwatir-4.0.0
Fetching: multi_json-1.7.2.gem (100%)
Successfully installed multi_json-1.7.2
Fetching: rubyzip-0.9.9.gem (100%)
Successfully installed rubyzip-0.9.9
Fetching: ffi-1.7.0-x86-mingw32.gem (100%)
Successfully installed ffi-1.7.0-x86-mingw32
Fetching: childprocess-0.3.9.gem (100%)
Successfully installed childprocess-0.3.9
Fetching: websocket-1.0.7.gem (100%)
Successfully installed websocket-1.0.7
Fetching: selenium-webdriver-2.32.1.gem (100%)
Successfully installed selenium-webdriver-2.32.1
Fetching: watir-webdriver-0.6.3.gem (100%)
Successfully installed watir-webdriver-0.6.3
Fetching: watir-4.0.2.gem (100%)
Successfully installed watir-4.0.2
Parsing documentation for commonwatir-4.0.0
Installing ri documentation for commonwatir-4.0.0
Parsing documentation for multi_json-1.7.2
Installing ri documentation for multi_json-1.7.2
Parsing documentation for rubyzip-0.9.9
Installing ri documentation for rubyzip-0.9.9
Parsing documentation for ffi-1.7.0-x86-mingw32
Installing ri documentation for ffi-1.7.0-x86-mingw32
Parsing documentation for childprocess-0.3.9
Installing ri documentation for childprocess-0.3.9
Parsing documentation for websocket-1.0.7
Installing ri documentation for websocket-1.0.7
Parsing documentation for selenium-webdriver-2.32.1
unable to convert “\xE0” from ASCII-8BIT to UTF-8 for lib/selenium/webdriver/fir
efox/native/linux/amd64/x_ignore_nofocus.so, skipping
unable to convert “\xB0” from ASCII-8BIT to UTF-8 for lib/selenium/webdriver/fir
efox/native/linux/x86/x_ignore_nofocus.so, skipping
unable to convert “\xDA” from ASCII-8BIT to UTF-8 for lib/selenium/webdriver/saf
ari/resources/SafariDriver.safariextz, skipping
Installing ri documentation for selenium-webdriver-2.32.1
Parsing documentation for watir-webdriver-0.6.3
Installing ri documentation for watir-webdriver-0.6.3
Parsing documentation for watir-4.0.2
Installing ri documentation for watir-4.0.2
Done installing documentation for commonwatir, multi_json, rubyzip, ffi, childpr
ocess, websocket, selenium-webdriver, watir-webdriver, watir (141 sec).
9 gems installed

and then install – gem install watir-webdriver
it should be –

C:\Users\tanmay>gem install watir-webdriver
Successfully installed watir-webdriver-0.6.3
Parsing documentation for watir-webdriver-0.6.3
Done installing documentation for watir-webdriver (5 sec).
1 gem installed

now back to eclipse, and write sample code –

require’watir’
require’watir-webdriver’
begin
$browser = Watir::Browser.new :firefox
$browser.goto(‘http://www.google.com’)
sleep(10)
$browser.close
end

Now right click on the script and run it as script

And it will show the desired out put (open firefox browser with google page)

Now your eclipse is ready for WATiR

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