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

You can use XPath to avoid looping:

String nameYouWant = "Name you want";
WebElement select = driver.findElement(By.id(id));
WebElement option = 
  select.findElement(By.xpath("//option[contains(text(),'" + nameYouWant + "')]"));
option.click();

or

WebElement option = 
  select.findElement(By.xpath("//option[text()='" + nameYouWant + "']"));