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

#SELECT FROM DROPDOWN IN RUBY USING SELENIUM WEBDRIVER
#AUTHOR:AYAN  DATE:14 June 2012

require "rubygems"
require "selenium-webdriver"



  begin
    @driver = Selenium::WebDriver.for :firefox
    @base_url = "http://www.yoururl.com"
    @driver.manage.timeouts.implicit_wait = 30

    @driver.get "http://www.yoursite.com"


    #select Urugway as Country
     Selenium::WebDriver::Support::Select.new(@driver.find_element(:id, "country")).select_by(:text, "Uruguay")

        rescue Exception => e
         puts e
         @driver.quit


    end