watir hang up after new browser

Question

I just installed watir, after exec

require 'watir-webdriver'
browser = Watir::Browser.new :firefox

it just open the browser but keep hang up. Can now write anything more at IRB console beacuse the "browser =" operation do not finish. I'm using firefox 32

score 1 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 11:45

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try gem update selenium-webdriver

similar question here Can not use variable in IRB after var = Watir::Browser.start 'url'

edited May 23 '17 at 11:45

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answered Oct 25 '14 at 23:16

Ivan Danci

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oh! I'm already google that, the gem is just intalled in the latest version – Lázaro Armando Nov 13 '14 at 21:16
Nop. As I told, is a recen installed version of watir, it is fresh. Then, I run update and tell that there is nothing to update – Lázaro Armando Nov 18 '14 at 13:35

boulder_ruby · Answer 2 · 2017-05-25T23:01:16.520

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Having run into this problem once every year or so, I've basically come to the conclusion that this has to do with a misalignment of three different pieces of software that have to work together: Firefox, the selenium-webdriver and geckodriver. The easy fix for any permutation of this issue should be to:

update firefox
Update selenium/watir -- bundle update selenium-webdriver or gem update selenium-webdriver
Update geckodriver -- https://github.com/mozilla/geckodriver/releases, swap previous "geckodriver" file out with new one

Other error messages that the above described misalignment can cause:

EOFError: end of file reached
Selenium::WebDriver::Error::WebDriverError: no sessionId in returned payload

edited May 25 '17 at 23:01

answered Nov 20 '14 at 20:14

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this is not rails, selenium-webdriver is just installed and there is nothing to update. Selenium is not working, perphaps firefox's recents version are not working with selenium – Lázaro Armando Nov 21 '14 at 13:42
does your ruby application cache its apps? try updating &/or replacing them. – boulder_ruby Nov 28 '14 at 21:57
I JUST INSTALLED, gem update selenium do not work, I do a fresh installation and the problem persist. **Just installed Ruby with just installed selenium.** – Lázaro Armando Dec 10 '14 at 16:14
I uninstalled all of the watir & selenium related gems (all versions) first before I did this – boulder_ruby Dec 13 '14 at 20:10

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Dec 10 '14 at 17:14

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solved, after update FIREFOX to newer version

answered Dec 10 '14 at 17:14

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