Watir 6.9.0 is now available on RubyGems! Several minor features and bug fixes from several new committers.

To install:

gem install watir

or in your Gemfile:

gem "watir", "~> 6.9"

Updates

• Element#flash had some browser compatibility issues with white backgrounds that has been fixed
• Firefox updated to the latest W3C supported Alert exceptions which Watir did not previously handle
• When working with multi-select lists, #select and #select_all will now accept an array of multiple options:

browser.select_list(name: "new_user_languages").select(["Danish", "Swedish"])

• The new Element#set! method can now handle multiple inputs. Note that the key combinations that are available in Element#set are still not supported
• Mozilla has also implemented a headless mode for Firefox, and it can now be accessed just like Chrome:

Watir::Browser.new :firefox, headless: true

• Cookies now now be set by String instead of just by Time:

browser.cookies.add 'foo', 'bar', {expires: (Time.now + 10000).to_s}

• The generic Browser#element and Browser#elements methods can now take advantage of the new class locators:

browser.element(class: ["a", "!c", "b"])

• If an element can not be located, and the page contains IFrames, Watir will append a note to the error message to: “Maybe look in an iframe?”

See the Changelog for the complete history of updates.