Question

I am new to Ruby and need help in accessing a function which is present in another file. The scenario is I have 2 files lets say test.rb and functions.rb

in test.rb i have the below code

require 'rubygems'
require 'watir'
require 'win32ole'
require 'erb' 
require 'ostruct' 
require 'C:\functions'
include Watir
U_RL="some url"
browser
if
ie.text.include?"There is a problem with this website's security certificate."
then
ie.link(:id, 'overridelink').click
end

now in the functions.rb file I have the below code

require 'rubygems'
require 'watir'
require 'win32ole'

include Watir

def browser
      ie=IE.new 
      ie.maximize
      ie.goto U_RL
      ie.focus
      ie.bring_to_front
      ie.wait()
end

When I run test.rb, I get the error “Undefined local variable or method ‘ie’ for main:object

I can see that the browser is opened and even the the mentioned url is coming up, but when the security warning page comes up it is not clicking on ie.link(:id, ‘overridelink’).click.

Please let me know how to over come this

Answer 1

In your definition of the browser method, the scope of ie is local to that method. It can not be accessed outside of it.

This code needs to be completely refactored, but for now, you could just have browser return the local instance of ie, and set it in test.rb

functions.rb:

def browser
      ie=IE.new 
      ie.maximize
      ie.goto U_RL
      ie.focus
      ie.bring_to_front
      ie.wait()
      ie # last value is returned in ruby; can be explicit and do `return ie` as well
end

test.rb:

ie = browser
if ie.text.include?"There is a problem with this website's security certificate."
then
  ie.link(:id, 'overridelink').click
end