Question

Using this code I cannot get a file to upload correctly to the website.

browser.form(:index, 2).file_field(:name, "filedata").set(""+folderName+"/iTunesArtwork")

Once the code is run it shows that it’s uploading by displaying a spinning wheel but it never actually uploads and the wheel just keeps spinning. If I upload it on my own though it uploads fine.

Here’s a link for the html:
http://f.cl.ly/items/3v3o1p1g0t2S1q3q3Q1h/Text%202011.09.03%2011:40:06%20PM.html

As you can see the html is in a form tag. If I try to access the file_field without going through the form first it will give me an error saying element can’t be interacted with because it’s not visible. Anyone have a clue what’s going on?

Answer 1

Your local file you are uploading mustn’t exist locally.

I have uploaded your HTML to: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/18859962/uploader.html

I tried this:

ruby-1.9.2-p290 :001 > require "watir-webdriver"
 => true 
ruby-1.9.2-p290 :002 > b = Watir::Browser.start "http://dl.dropbox.com/u/18859962/uploader.html"
 => #<Watir::Browser:0x..fdea53ebfe3940b9a url="http://dl.dropbox.com/u/18859962/uploader.html" title="untitled"> 
ruby-1.9.2-p290 :003 > b.file_field.exists?
 => true 
ruby-1.9.2-p290 :004 > local_file = "/users/me/ie.html"
 => "/users/me/ie.html" 
ruby-1.9.2-p290 :005 > File.exists? local_file
 => true 
ruby-1.9.2-p290 :006 > raise "error" unless File.exists? local_file
 => nil 
ruby-1.9.2-p290 :007 > b.file_field.set local_file
 => "/users/me/ie.html

Please run your script against this hosted html file and report back.

Also, you should raise an exception if the local file doesn’t exist, so that eliminates that error.