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

The easiest way I found was:

select_elem.find_element(:css, "option[value='some_value']").click

Answer 2

Full disclosure here: I have absolutely no working knowledge of Ruby.

However, I'm pretty good with Selenium so I think I can help. I think what you're looking for is the select method. If ruby is anything like the other drivers you can use the select method to tell one of the options it is selected.

In pseudocode/java terms it would look something like this

    WebElement select = driver.findElement(By.name("select"));
    List<WebElement> options = select.findElements(By.tagName("option"));
    for(WebElement option : options){
        if(option.getText().equals("Name you want")) {
            option.click();
            break;
        }
    }

The Select object you have above is actually in a special Support package. It only exists for Java and .Net at the moment (Jan 2011)

Answer 3

require "selenium-webdriver"
webdriver = Selenium::WebDriver.for :firefox

driver.navigate.to url

dropdown = webdriver.find_element(:id,dropdownid)
return nil if dropdown.nil?
selected = dropdown.find_elements(:tag_name,"option").detect { |option| option.attribute('text').eql? value}
 if selected.nil? then
  puts "Can't find value in dropdown list"
 else
  selected.click
 end

In my case this is only one working sample.

Answer 4

Ruby Code with Example:

require "selenium-webdriver"

driver = Selenium::WebDriver.for :ie

driver.navigate.to "http://google.com"
a=driver.find_element(:link,'Advanced search')

a.click


a=driver.find_element(:name,'num')

options=a.find_elements(:tag_name=>"option")
options.each do |g|
  if g.text == "20 results"
  g.click
  break
  end
end

Answer 5

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 + "']"));

Answer 6

Please note that none of the above will work anymore. Element#select and Element#toggle have been deprecated. You need to do something like:

my_select.click
my_select.find_elements( :tag_name => "option" ).find do |option|
  option.text == value
end.click