How to upload a file with watir and IE?

Question

I am writing a watir script to test an upload form.

But the script does not automatically choose the file that is to be uploaded from my harddrive.

Instead I

Answer 1

I would suggest that you take a look at FileField#set in input_elements.rb (in your Ruby gems directory), and change sleep 1 to sleep 2 (or some higher number). I have noticed that on slower machines it takes more than a second for file upload pop up to appear.