Ruby/Webdriver : Error handling log output

Question

Here's what I'm currently doing:

  def wait_for(timeout = 5)
    Selenium::WebDriver::Wait.new(:timeout => timeout).until { yield }
            rescue Selenium::WebDriver::Error::TimeOutError => e
            puts 'Timeout Error'
            rescue Selenium::WebDriver::Error::NoSuchElementError => ex
            puts 'No Such Element Error'
  end

Two questions:

1) Why is it showing me the Timeout Error twice? It should just time out and end the test

2) How do I get it to not show me all that extra information at the bottom? Ideally what I'd like is just for it to say "Timeout" or "No such element" and that's it.**

My log spits out alllll of this:

Loaded suite C:/2oh/qt Started

First Run Timeout Error Timeout Error E ======================================================================================================================================================================================================== Error: test_18a(Tests):
Selenium::WebDriver::Error::NoSuchElementError: no such element (Session info: chrome=43.0.2357.134) (Driver info: chromedriver=2.15.322448 (52179c1b310fec1797c81ea9a20326839860b7d3),platform=Windows NT 6.1 SP1 x86_64) C:/Ruby22/lib/ruby/gems/2.2.0/gems/selenium-webdriver-2.46.2/lib/selenium/webdriver/remote/response.rb:71:in assert_ok' C:/Ruby22/lib/ruby/gems/2.2.0/gems/selenium-webdriver-2.46.2/lib/selenium/webdriver/remote/response.rb:34:ininitialize' C:/Ruby22/lib/ruby/gems/2.2.0/gems/selenium-webdriver-2.46.2/lib/selenium/webdriver/remote/http/common.rb:78:in new' C:/Ruby22/lib/ruby/gems/2.2.0/gems/selenium-webdriver-2.46.2/lib/selenium/webdriver/remote/http/common.rb:78:increate_response' C:/Ruby22/lib/ruby/gems/2.2.0/gems/selenium-webdriver-2.46.2/lib/selenium/webdriver/remote/http/default.rb:90:in request' C:/Ruby22/lib/ruby/gems/2.2.0/gems/selenium-webdriver-2.46.2/lib/selenium/webdriver/remote/http/common.rb:59:incall' C:/Ruby22/lib/ruby/gems/2.2.0/gems/selenium-webdriver-2.46.2/lib/selenium/webdriver/remote/bridge.rb:657:in raw_execute' C:/Ruby22/lib/ruby/gems/2.2.0/gems/selenium-webdriver-2.46.2/lib/selenium/webdriver/remote/bridge.rb:635:inexecute' C:/Ruby22/lib/ruby/gems/2.2.0/gems/selenium-webdriver-2.46.2/lib/selenium/webdriver/remote/bridge.rb:603:in find_element_by' C:/Ruby22/lib/ruby/gems/2.2.0/gems/selenium-webdriver-2.46.2/lib/selenium/webdriver/common/search_context.rb:61:infind_element' C:/2oh/qttests.rb:28:in test_hdesrbf' C:/2oh/qt.rb:13:intest_18a' 10: 11: def test_18a 12: puts "First Run" => 13: test_hdesrbf 14: end
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David Ambler David Ambler · Accepted Answer · 2015-08-10T16:06:50

The output you are seeing is telling you more information about the error you are rescuing. Don't think there is any escaping it, although it is handy because it will tell you what line of code has failed, and why. I'm not actually 100% sure why you would want to simplify the error!

The reason you are seeing the errors twice is because you are not telling the program to end. You are saying 'Hey, rescue this error type and output this text.' you're not telling it to stop. It will continue and I guess timeout finding the next element? To rectify this, instead of using puts to output your error text, use raise. This will halt the program once the text has been output. E.g

def wait_for(timeout = 5)
  Selenium::WebDriver::Wait.new(:timeout => timeout).until { yield }
  rescue Selenium::WebDriver::Error::TimeOutError
    raise 'Timeout Error'
  rescue Selenium::WebDriver::Error::NoSuchElementError
    raise 'No Such Element Error'
end

Ruby/Webdriver : Error handling log output

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