PRoR-191 preview: Watir on Ruby 1.9.1

Posted on Aug 06

By mark

The long waiting One-Click Ruby Installer for Windows is coming closer, it's first preview release has been available over 2 months now. Based on it, we packaged a preview release of PRoR with Jari Bakken's fork of Watir for Ruby 1.9.1.

You can download it here, WARNING: this is a preview software.

Update: New versions are available on download page

Here is comparison of running a fairly complex 3-minute Watir test case using two versions of PRoR-191 and PRoR-186.

Ruby 1.9.1 (mingw32)

  C:\sandobx>ruby -v
ruby 1.9.1p129 (2009-05-12 revision 23412) [i386-mingw32]

C:\sandobx>spec -fs lodgement_spec.rb
loading win32ole from stdlib on 1.9
Loading pages ...Cost: 1.640552
Lodgement 
 - [Story 123] A complete end-to-end test happy case
Finished in 171.78125 seconds

Ruby 1.8.6 (mswin32)

  C:\sandobx>ruby -v
ruby 1.8.6 (2008-03-03 patchlevel 114) [i386-mswin32]

C:\sandobx>spec -fs lodgement_spec.rb
Loading pages ...Cost: 0.656
Lodgement 
 - [Story 123] A complete end-to-end test happy case
Finished in 174.983 seconds

Here are some observations:

No noticeable performance differences, as expected, as test execution time is most depend on web application server response time and browser rendering time.
Page class loading time (Ruby's require/load classes) using Ruby 1.9 is longer than in Ruby 1.8.6
close_others (Watir) does not work