watir-webdriver dependency in mac?

Question

I have a mac and am using the IDE Ruby Mine. I've tried to install watir-webdriver via the terminal with the code sudo gem install watir-webdriver

Terminal returns: With the release of Watir 6.0, the watir-webdriver gem has changed its name to watir. Update your dependencies to use "watir", "~> 6.0"

Successfully installed watir-webdriver-0.9.9 Parsing documentation for watir-webdriver-0.9.9 Done installing documentation for watir-webdriver after 1 seconds 1 gem installed

If it's an issue with updating my dependencies how do I do that, I cannot find any information online.

In my gems folder I don't see watir installed. I installed cucumber successfully, i see that folder in there but not watir.

My version of ruby is ruby 2.4.0p0

Any help would be much appreciated, thanks!

Are you saying you don't see "watir-webdriver" installed? The message suggests it did install "watir-webdriver" correctly. The message is just suggesting that you switch to "watir" instead since that is the newer version - ie do a sudo gem install watir — Justin Ko
the message in terminal says it it did install watir-webdriver. I went ahead and installed water as per your code and it says it successfully installed. But I do not see it in the folder ~/Libray/Ruby/Gems/2.0.0/ Cucumber and some other gems are in there but not watir — Babba Booey
Sorry, I'm not a Mac user. In another answer, they suggest that sudo gem install might install to /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework instead? — Justin Ko

Gopal Gopal · Accepted Answer · 2017-01-11T04:36:44

You don't have to install watir-webdriver now, Simply install watir which includes watir-webdriver. Currently they have included waiting arragement for each element which is available to you If you install watir, this will not be available to you If you install watir-webdriver separately.

If you write

b.text_field.set 'Hi'

With the installation watir, the above statement will automatically converted to

b.text_field.when_present.set 'Hi'

With the installation of Watir-webdriver, the above statement remains the same.

Note: This recent watir is not a meta gem which chooses between watir-webdriver and watir-classic, this completely lies on watir-webdriver.

watir-webdriver dependency in mac?

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