Watir 1.6.6 RC1 is out

Written by: bpettichord on September 27, 2010

Watir 1.6.6 RC1 has been released. See full details on Google Groups. Improvements include:

Version 1.6.6

IE improvements

  • #elements_by_xpath uses now Nokogiri's xpath method instead of search (Matt Baker)
  • Element#style returns now currentStyle. Closes http://jira.openqa.org/browse/WTR-444 (Jarmo Pertman)
  • Element#visible? doesn't return false anymore for disabled elements (Charley Baker)
  • TH elements texts are included into Table#to_a results. Closes http://jira.openqa.org/browse/WTR-445 (Jarmo Pertman)
  • Added TableRow#to_a method which returns an array of the texts of the cells for the table row. Closes http://jira.openqa.org/browse/WTR-445 (Jarmo Pertman)
  • Added an optional numeric parameter max_depth for Table#to_a and TableRow#to_a for getting text values for nested tables. Closes http://jira.openqa.org/browse/WTR-445 (Jarmo Pertman)
  • #close will close the browser even if #wait raises an Exception. Closes http://jira.openqa.org/browse/WTR-443 (Jarmo Pertman)
  • Added #element and #elements methods for locating non-specific elements. Closes http://jira.openqa.org/browse/WTR-103 (Hugh McGowan)
  • #click_no_wait fixes and improvements. Closes http://jira.openqa.org/browse/WTR-320 and http://jira.openqa.org/browse/WTR-449 (Jarmo Pertman)
  • #wait will raise a Timeout::Error if page hasn't been loaded within 5 minutes. Closes http://jira.openqa.org/browse/WTR-452 (Bret)
  • Fixed a problem when #wait blocked forever. Closes http://jira.openqa.org/browse/WTR-446 (Jarmo Pertman)

Firefox improvements

  • Added close_all method to firefox. Closes http://jira.openqa.org/browse/WTR-222 (Angrez)
  • Fixed status method for firefox. (Angrez)
  • Fixed url method for firefox. Closes http://jira.openqa.org/browse/WTR-428 (Alister Scott)
  • Added JRuby support (Ian Dees)
  • Forcing to use ActiveSupport 2.3.9 due to incompatibilities with newer versions (Jarmo Pertman)

Cleanup & Maintenance

  • Some rdoc cleanup (marekj)
  • Removed Watir::Utils (Jarmo Pertman)

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