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Someone at our last ruby meetup demo'd a project he was working on called watirloo http://github.com/marekj/watirloo/tree/master http://github.com/marekj/watirl

• wr1472 18y ago
  I'd echo the use of WATiR. Never used Ruby before (although it's been on my list of things to do for a long time), let alone WATiR but managed to learn enough of the language and the framework to write a DSL based on WATiR. The idea being that it would be simple enough for non-developers (read testers) to pick-up relatively easily. We're using it to test an enterprise grade ASP.NET application and it's doing well so far. Although you can only run it against IE, I think there is a FF version called FireWATiR which is based on a fork of the code to not exactly the same but similar enough. The other minor drawback is that it doesn't work well when waiting for AJAX requests; you have to get a bit clever and use some of way of noting an AJAX call has come back - for example the hiding of a progress bar. Other than that a great lightweight and free tool to improve your code!