Commands

The following commands can be used in tests or in script\console

• browser – access the browser
• goto url – go to a url; url is relative to the base url.
• site.config[:url] – returns the base url of the environment (see also Configuration Options)

These are two different ways of doing the same thing:

browser.goto site.config[:url]
goto ''

In addition, you can access any page; e.g. home_page will return an instance of HomePage. See Pages

Execution Contexts

These commands will work in any “execution context”. WatirCraft supplies several execution contexts:

1. Inside an it block in an Rspec test
2. Inside a before or after block in an Rspec test
3. Inside a step definition for a Cucumber test
4. At the script\console prompt (after irb START)
5. Inside your initialize_browser method definition for your Site.
6. Inside a project method