First Time Selenium Ruby in Windows

You have to learn how to walk before you can run -- this is one of the rules I follow when I'm trying to learn something new. Although I was able to do Selenium Ruby + Capybara + Cucumber setup on my previous post about starting to learn Ruby and automation using it, I felt like I need to go back because I could have missed an important basic knowledge.

I completed the Ruby in 20 minutes exercises to get a feel of basic Ruby syntax and also the Chapter 1 of The Ruby Programming Language by O'Reilly, I started creating my first test in Selenium Ruby.

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Creating my first test

Reference/s:
Ruby in 20 minutes: https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/documentation/quickstart/
Selenium WebDriver Documentation ("Introducing the Selenium-WebDriver API by Example" section): https://www.seleniumhq.org/docs/03_webdriver.jsp

If "Hello World" is the first thing that most programming language tutorials teaches you, for Selenium it's probably doing a Google search for "Cheese". So that's what I did.

Note that the example for the 2nd reference I provided already gives the code for this exercise, which is fine for me. When I'm trying to learn something, I follow the code provided then I will try to understand each code as I type it then I will make a guess on how the output will turn out.

The test goes like this:

1. Open the browser of your choice
2. Open Google.com
3. Type in "Cheese" and submit
4. Verify that the page title starts with "cheese"
5. Open the first search result
6. Close the browser

Here's my code:

#
# First Test - "Cheese" Google Search
#
# References:
# https://www.seleniumhq.org/docs/03_webdriver.jsp
# https://www.rubydoc.info/gems/selenium-webdriver/0.0.28/Selenium/WebDriver
#
#load selenium-webdriver gem
require 'selenium-webdriver'

#initialize webdriver
driver = Selenium::WebDriver.for :firefox
driver.manage.window.maximize
driver.manage.timeouts.implicit_wait = 10 # seconds

#open URL
driver.get "http://google.com/"

#perform search for "Cheese"
element = driver.find_element(:name,'q')
element.send_keys("Cheese")
element.submit

#wait for browser to move to next page
wait = Selenium::WebDriver::Wait.new(:timeout => 10)
wait.until { !driver.title.downcase.start_with? "google"}

#display page title
puts "Page title is '#{driver.title}'"

#verify page title
is_startWith = driver.title.downcase.start_with? "cheese"
puts "Page title starts with 'cheese?' " + is_startWith.to_s

#click first link
element = driver.find_elements(:xpath,'//a/h3')
str_linkText = element[0].text
element[0].click
puts "Clicked 1st link '" + str_linkText + "'"

#kill web driver instance
driver.quit