Watizzle

Sizzle-based locator engine for Watir.

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'watizzle'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install watizzle

Usage

Require after Watir, the rest should just work.

require 'watir'
require 'watizzle'

Comparison with default Watir locators

In most cases watizzle works slightly slower than default Watir locator, mainly because it doesn't use selenium-webdriver optimized find_element and relies on #execute_script. However, the performance improves a lot when working with regular expression selectors.

Let's say you want to find all the links from Google results page that include watir:

browser.as(text: /watir/).to_a

The following line executes for more than 1 second with default Watir. With watizzle, it's executed for less than 0.1 second, which is 10x faster!

Limitations

Some watir locators cannot be reimplemented with watizzle. In such cases, it falls back to watir, so you should be able to migrate pretty easily. The only issue that may occur is the usage of complicated regular expressions. For now, watizzle simply uses your Ruby regexp in JavaScript, ignoring the cases when it's incompatible. If you see any issue with regexp selectors, make sure your regexp is compatible with JavaScript regexp engine.

Development

To install this gem onto your local machine, run bundle exec rake install. To release a new version, update the version number in version.rb, and then run bundle exec rake release, which will create a git tag for the version, push git commits and tags, and push the .gem file to rubygems.org.

Specs

Run all specs:

$ bundle exec rake

Contributing

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/p0deje/watizzle. This project is intended to be a safe, welcoming space for collaboration, and contributors are expected to adhere to the Contributor Covenant code of conduct.