Watir timing out when trying to find any elements after visiting webpage

Question

So probably the most important thing to preface this with is that I'm using c9. It's an IDE in the cloud and so that is giving me a lot of trouble when trying to use Chrome or Firefox with Watir, because I can't write a path to the Chrome or Firefox browser. I've also tried every variation of wait methods I could find but none of them work.

def save
    require 'watir'
    require 'phantomjs'

    @browser = Watir::Browser.new :phantomjs
    @browser.goto "https://kroger.softcoin.com/programs/kroger/digital_coupons/?origin=DigitalCoupons&banner=Smiths#contentBox"

    @browser.div(id: "contentBox").wait_until(&:present?).text
    @products = @browser.divs

end

Error

timed out after 30 seconds, waiting for true condition on #"contentBox", :tag_name=>"div"}>

The way I want to fix this problem of not being able to scrape data from the Smiths website is to use a chrome browser, but I get the error "unable to connect to chromedriver 127.0.0.1:9515"

Keon

It works properly in firefox and you don't have to use wait_until() method because it automatically waits for :exist :present :enabled . Please don't use geckodriver for firefox, use legacy firefox, it works very properly. – Instar

Don't use legacy Firefox unless you absolutely have to; geckodriver is close to feature complete at this point. Legacy Firefox will likely not be an option in upcoming Selenium 4. Chrome Driver is best supported right now, check out Watir::Browser.new :chrome, headless: true as a replacement for phantomjs. It is much faster and phantomjs is being deprecated. – Nammu

@Nammu Do you know firefox restores it's support for selenium at 52 esp version? – Instar

@Nammu I've tried that before, but I get the error "unable to connect to chromedriver 127.0.0.1:9515", and I can't seem to link a path to the Chrome browser because I'm developing in an online IDE. – Keon

Answer 1

I had similar problem and I resolved it by installing docker container with selenium

# docker-compose.yml file
version: '2'
services:
  selenium:
    image: selenium/standalone-chrome
    ports:
      - "4444:4444"
    restart: always
    volumes:
      - "${PWD}/spec:${PWD}/spec" # I exposed `spec` dir to cover code with specs
      - /dev/shm:/dev/shm


# test.rb file
@browser = Watir::Browser.new(
  :remote,
  url: 'http://localhost:4444/wd/hub'
)

Run container with command:

docker run -it -d -P -p 4444:4444 -v `pwd`/spec:`pwd`/spec selenium/standalone-chrome

And try again

(Also you can run container even on VPS or another remote server, and then connect to it)

Pineda

Answer 2

I had a similar issue and installing the webdrivers gem fixed my problem

$gem install webdrivers

Abran