Saving a browser url with Ruby and watir-webdriver

Question

I'm using watir-webdriver to do my GUI smoke tests, and one area I'd like to test out is redirecting from a dynamic url

Is it possible to save the url to a file, then load it for use?

What I'm thinking of in pseudo code:

@browser.goto 'google.com'
@browser.url.save

in another test

@browser.load url
continue testing....

Is there a way to do this?

Also, watir-webdriver gem has been deprecated in favor of the watir gem. Update to to Watir 6 to get access to all of the new features. — titusfortner
– titusfortner, Commented Mar 6, 2017 at 23:11

TopperH · Accepted Answer · 2017-03-06 22:36:18Z

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To write a string to a file you can just do that:

 File.open('path/to/yourfile', 'w') { |file| file.write(@browser.url) }

You can use it in the other test like this:

File.open('path/to/yourfile', "rb") { |file| @browser.goto(file.read) }

answered Mar 6, 2017 at 22:36

TopperH

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Oh wow, I pretty much facepalmed as soon as I read your answer. Yup, this definitely works!