How do I set an option as selected using Selenium WebDriver (selenium 2.0) client in ruby

Question

I am trying to get familiar with the new ruby selenium-webdriver as it appears more intuitive mostly than the previous version of selenium and the ruby driver that went with

Answer 1

I don't know what version Selenium this came about, but it looks like there is the Select class that pnewhook mentioned in Selenium 2.20

http://selenium.googlecode.com/svn-history/r15117/trunk/docs/api/rb/Selenium/WebDriver/Support/Select.html

option = Selenium::WebDriver::Support::Select.new(@driver.find_element(:xpath => "//select"))
option.select_by(:text, "Edam")