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")

Answer 2

For the latest version of Webdriver (RC3) you should use "click()" instead of setSelected(). Also option.getText().equals("Name you want") should be used instead of option.getText()=="Name you want" in JAVA:

<!-- language: lang-java --> 
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;
    }
}

Answer 3

pnewhook got it but I'd like to post the ruby version here so everyone can see it:

require "selenium-webdriver"
driver = Selenium::WebDriver.for :firefox
driver.manage.timeouts.implicit_wait = 10
driver.get "https://example.com"  
country_select = driver.find_element(:id=> "address_country")
options = country_select.find_elements(:tag_name=>"option")
options.each do |el|
    if (el.attributes("value") == "USA") 
        el.click()
        break
    end
end

Answer 4

#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