We have improved error messaging and have access to Logger functionality we can leverage to make this more useful

https://github.com/watir/watir_meta/wiki/Troubleshooting-Watir-Code

I think we get rid of this page:
http://watir.github.io/docs/browser-downloads/

In favor of
http://watir.github.io/docs/chrome/
and
http://watir.github.io/docs/firefox/

We probably also need to update information for
Geckodriver
Apple's SafariDriver in MacOS/Sierra
and Microsoft's Edge driver

The Stack Overflow Teams project has ended. As a result, clicking the link in the footer goes to a general "Teams has un-shipped" page.

We should remove the link in the footer.

Update this one: https://github.com/watir/watir_meta/wiki/Cheat-Sheet

This site does not have mobile css, and does not look good on a phone.

OS: Win 7 Enterprise 64bit
IE 11.0.9600.18617
ruby 2.3.3p222 (2016-11-21 revision 56859) [x64-mingw32]
watir 6.2.0
IEDriverServer 3.3.0 32bit

browser.alert.exists? would dismiss the alert rather than not. It does return true for the first call though. Any attempt to handle alert will close it. This means ok or confirm cannot be clicked.

We already have Watir and Watir-Webdriver that we are looking to merge into this site. Much of that information is outdated, but not all of it.

Things we should consider adding to the site:

1. Updated Formatting (aka make it pretty)
2. About information (Team page? / Support Page?)
3. Copy over old blog posts
4. Copy over links to old podcasts
5. History Page / Watir-Classic Page
6. List of companies using Watir
7. Move over all the 'advanced guides' from watirwebdriver.com

Where do we want to document 3rd Party gems? On the website or in github readme?

I noticed there are a bunch here that should be put somewhere else one way or another.

Need explanation and examples of how to use Watir with Remote servers
Can also discuss sauce labs integration, etc.

Leverage
RSpec: https://github.com/watir/watir_meta/wiki/Test-Framework-Example-with-RSpec
Minitest: https://github.com/watir/watir_meta/wiki/Test-Framework-Example-with-MiniTest

and write example for Cucumber

In master/_docs/chrome.md this link is a 404

See the full list of switches [here](http://src.chromium.org/svn/trunk/src/chrome/common/pref_names.cc)

working link seems to be
https://src.chromium.org/viewvc/chrome/trunk/src/chrome/common/pref_names.cc

This is a great starting point:
https://github.com/watir/watir_meta/wiki/Finding-Page-Elements#regular-expressions

Want to add in Rubular

also maybe include specific examples of common patterns

Download the last good archive of watirpodcast.com with Wayback Machine Downloader and host it as a separate page/folder on this site.

Theoretically (I'm not sure how implementing these will work) there are two options for url redirection

1. Redirect the entire domain, usually done through the domain registrar, which may or may not be WordPress. it will try to map http://watir.com/x/y/z.html to http://watir.github.io/x/y/z.html so almost all of the links to watir.com will hit a 404 page on watir.github.io. Which is why #44
2. Redirect each page individually: This would be a pain, but theoretically we could update each and every page from the old site to the right page on the new site:
   <meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0; URL='http://new-website.com'" />
   I have no idea if/how easily we can do this on wordpress sites, but it would theoretically be kinder to everyone who has ever linked to one of our pages.

We should have more articles on the site giving real examples of all the ways that elements can be located.

Navigating from http://watir.com/updated-documentation/ to http://watir.com/updated-documentation/working-with-elements via the "Working with Elements" text is returning a 404

A big stumbling block for new users is figuring out how to look at the DOM in the first place

We should update this with some more specifics, maybe some screenshots
https://github.com/watir/watir_meta/wiki/Browser-Development-Toolbar

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/watir-general/_vvlRzlByoA

There are two ways of doing this:

1. Paginating the posts
2. Using a date filter on the sidebar

As result, we'll remove the archives that are currently with different yearly files.

I am trying to run my script in Edge browser using watir and selenium grid 2.53.1 . On running the grid console shows that the edge browser has got allocated, but it doesnt run any of the test.

It throws the below error

"["[remote server] sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl():-2:in newInstance0'\", \"[remote server] sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl():-1:innewInstance'", "[remote server] sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl():-1:in newInstance'\", \"[remote server] java.lang.reflect.Constructor():-1:innewInstance'", "[remote server] org.openqa.selenium.remote.ErrorHandler(ErrorHandler.java):206:in createThrowable'\", \"[remote server] org.openqa.selenium.remote.ErrorHandler(ErrorHandler.java):158:inthrowIfResponseFailed'", "[remote server] org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver(RemoteWebDriver.java):678:in execute'\", \"[remote server] org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver(RemoteWebDriver.java):249:instartSession'", "[remote server] org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver(RemoteWebDriver.java):131:in <init>'\", \"[remote server] org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver(RemoteWebDriver.java):144:in'", "[remote server] org.openqa.selenium.edge.EdgeDriver(EdgeDriver.java):152:in <init>'\", \"[remote server] org.openqa.selenium.edge.EdgeDriver(EdgeDriver.java):120:in'", "[remote server] sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl():-2:in newInstance0'\", \"[remote server] sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl():-1:innewInstance'", "[remote server] sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl():-1:in newInstance'\", \"[remote server] java.lang.reflect.Constructor():-1:innewInstance'", "[remote server] org.openqa.selenium.remote.server.DefaultDriverProvider(DefaultDriverProvider.java):103:in callConstructor'\", \"[remote server] org.openqa.selenium.remote.server.DefaultDriverProvider(DefaultDriverProvider.java):97:innewInstance'", "[remote server] org.openqa.selenium.remote.server.DefaultDriverFactory(DefaultDriverFactory.java):60:in newInstance'\", \"[remote server] org.openqa.selenium.remote.server.DefaultSession$BrowserCreator(DefaultSession.java):222:incall'", "[remote server] org.openqa.selenium.remote.server.DefaultSession$BrowserCreator(DefaultSession.java):1:in call'\", \"[remote server] java.util.concurrent.FutureTask():-1:inrun'", "[remote server] org.openqa.selenium.remote.server.DefaultSession$1(DefaultSession.java):176:in run'\", \"[remote server] java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor():-1:inrunWorker'", "[remote server] java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker():-1:in run'\", \"[remote server] java.lang.Thread():-1:inrun'", "C:/Ruby23/lib/ruby/gems/2.3.0/gems/selenium-webdriver-2.53.1/lib/selenium/webdriver/remote/response.rb:70:in assert_ok'\", \"C:/Ruby23/lib/ruby/gems/2.3.0/gems/selenium-webdriver-2.53.1/lib/selenium/webdriver/remote/response.rb:34:ininitialize'", "C:/Ruby23/lib/ruby/gems/2.3.0/gems/selenium-webdriver-2.53.1/lib/selenium/webdriver/remote/http/common.rb:78:in new'\", \"C:/Ruby23/lib/ruby/gems/2.3.0/gems/selenium-webdriver-2.53.1/lib/selenium/webdriver/remote/http/common.rb:78:increate_response'", "C:/Ruby23/lib/ruby/gems/2.3.0/gems/selenium-webdriver-2.53.1/lib/selenium/webdriver/remote/http/default.rb:90:in request'\", \"C:/Ruby23/lib/ruby/gems/2.3.0/gems/selenium-webdriver-2.53.1/lib/selenium/webdriver/remote/http/common.rb:59:incall'", "C:/Ruby23/lib/ruby/gems/2.3.0/gems/selenium-webdriver-2.53.1/lib/selenium/webdriver/remote/bridge.rb:649:in raw_execute'\", \"C:/Ruby23/lib/ruby/gems/2.3.0/gems/selenium-webdriver-2.53.1/lib/selenium/webdriver/remote/bridge.rb:123:increate_session'", "C:/Ruby23/lib/ruby/gems/2.3.0/gems/selenium-webdriver-2.53.1/lib/selenium/webdriver/remote/bridge.rb:87:in initialize'\", \"C:/Ruby23/lib/ruby/gems/2.3.0/gems/selenium-webdriver-2.53.1/lib/selenium/webdriver/common/driver.rb:59:innew'", "C:/Ruby23/lib/ruby/gems/2.3.0/gems/selenium-webdriver-2.53.1/lib/selenium/webdriver/common/driver.rb:59:in for'\", \"C:/Ruby23/lib/ruby/gems/2.3.0/gems/selenium-webdriver-2.53.1/lib/selenium/webdriver.rb:84:infor'", "C:/Ruby23/lib/ruby/gems/2.3.0/gems/watir-webdriver-0.9.3/lib/watir-webdriver/browser.rb:46:in initialize'\", \"C:/Users/xyz/codes/ruby/lib/ci_utilities.rb:246:innew'", "C:/Users/xyz/codes/ruby/lib/ci_utilities.rb:246:in block in assign_browser'\", \"C:/Users/xyz/codes/ruby/lib/ci_utilities.rb:243:ineach'", "C:/Users/xyz/codes/ruby/lib/ci_utilities.rb:243:in assign_browser'\", \"C:/Users/xyz/codes/ruby/vdeck/registration/hosting_registration.rb:90:in

Currently I haven't mentioned any browser capabilities.

if opts['browser_selection'] =~ /edge/i
      p 'edge'
      browser_capabilities[:browserName] = 'MicrosoftEdge'
end

browser = Watir::Browser.new(:remote,
                   :url => "http://#{hub}:4444/wd/hub",
                  :desired_capabilities => browser_capabilities )`

Selenium hub and node are configured as below

REM Settings as a hub
start java -jar selenium-server-standalone-2.53.1.jar -role hub -port 4444 -DPOOL_MAX=512

REM Setting as a node
start java -Dwebdriver.chrome.driver=C:\seleniumgrid\chromedriver.exe -Dwebdriver.edge.driver=C:\seleniumgrid\MicrosoftWebDriver.exe -Dwebdriver.ie.driver=C:\seleniumgrid\IEDriverServer.exe -jar selenium-server-standalone-2.53.1.jar -role node -port 5556 -hub http://localhost:4444/grid/register -browser browserName=MicrosoftEdge,platform=WINDOWS,maxInstances=2 -browserTimeout 500 -browser browserName="internet explorer",version=11,maxInstances=2,platform=WINDOWS -browser browserName=chrome,maxInstances=2,platform=WINDOWS -browser browserName=firefox,maxInstances=2,platform=WINDOWS -log C:\seleniumgrid\node1.log
`

Are there any specific capabilties which needs to be mentioned while running Edge browser with watir?

Depending on how we redirect the old sites, we might want a more custom 404 page explaining that old sites went away and that the links are stale.

Article could be posted as either a page or a blogpost.

There are a number of Watir related books out there. Would be nice to have book reviews and recommendations on our website as well. Just an idea.

Someone just asked in Slack what gem they should be using because they have 4 currently installed (watir-webdriver, watir, watircommon & watir-classic).

I think a link on the main page of what the current recommended gem to use would be good. We can keep that updated when we do new releases.

Especially before we release 6.0 it is a little confusing still.

This page is out of date:
http://watir.github.io/docs/mobile/

Moving this issue over here: watir/watir#278

I added myself. Who else? @abaird?
I'll reach out to orde who is very active on Stack Overflow.

i.e watir-webdriver

This all worked locally when I tested it, but now that it's "live", the /docs/ pages do not pull up.

We want to have a way of tracking which pages are getting the most traffic. This is needed for parity with wordpress.com.

Here is one tutorial on how to do this: http://joshualande.com/jekyll-github-pages-poole/

Most of the topics from the old websites should be updated and ported to the new website. Historical blog posts should be ported over. Comments on posts don't need to be ported, although it would certainly be nice to have them.

Do we want to pull wiki information onto the website & just have them link to the website??

https://github.com/watir/watir_meta/wiki
https://github.com/watir/watir/wiki

Also need to update this link: http://watir.github.com/watir/doc

On this page http://watir.com/guides/headless/ the link purporting to be "Headless on Chrome" references http://watir.com/guides/firefox/#headless

On the same page, the link purporting to be "Headless on Firefox" has the same href, but there is no anchor on that page #headless. Headless is not mentioned at all.

Capabilities code is still a mess in Watir.

I'd like for us to have a way to show off in the guides what things people are doing.

Similar to: watir/watir#694 (comment)

http://watir.com/guides/elements/

• The examples no longer work
• Not all special behaviors are represented here.
• We can pull in more info from: https://github.com/watir/watir_meta/wiki/Page-Elements

Don't see this content on our new site, yet: https://watir.com/book/

I opended the Ruby Command Line and copy and pasted this : gem install watir
This is the error i got.

ERROR: Could not find a valid gem 'watir' (>= 0), here is why:
Unable to download data from https://rubygems.org/ - no such name (https://rubygems.org/specs.4.8.gz)

In _guides/drivers.md, Edge Driver is linked to Gecko Driver...

It's only seen on this repo, not the actual site, but it should get changed away from the Jekyll Now default.

Something got hosed on the community page when it renders on the actual github site. I'm seeing HTML code in various places and links in spans aren't rendering.

Only the watir site has blog posts.

It seems like Disqus is the right tool for comments these days and there are tutorials out there for how to integrate with Jekyll. Ideally we would port over the old comments from the wordpress sites to attach to the blog posts that re ported over.