Category Archives: FireWatir  Watir-WebDriver: A
detailed introduction  Update: 22 August 2011: Please see: for a
detailed guide to Watir-WebDriver  Update: 22 July 2011: I have
updated quite a number of things that have changed since the
earlier releases  Watir-WebDriver is a really great tool; Jari
Bakken‘s done a really good job of it. There’s not a huge amount
on the web about it, how to get it up and running and use it.
I’m aiming to fix that here.  For those who don’t know what
Watir-WebDriver is, it’s basically a nice Watir (ruby)
implementation on WebDriver, so it gives you four browsers
(three real, one headless) using one neat API, out of the box.
The thing I like about it is you don’t need to use JRuby (like
Celerity), which means it plays nice with Cucumber (although
Cucumber does work under JRuby).  I’ve written about how Watir,
WebDriver and Selenium all fit together before, so this post
aims to be a lot more hands-on.  Getting Watir-WebDriver Running
There are essentially two components you ne