Wed, 22 Nov 2006

SafariWatir 0.2.0

Hamish released the first rb-appscript gem, paving the way for the new and improved SafariWatir. Now with non-sluggish performance! Seriously, my regression test script runs ridiculously fast on my MacBook Pro compared to previous versions of SafariWatir.

This performance boost comes as no surprise. Up until now I was doing the simplest most naive (and slowest) thing that could possible work by using backticks to invoke AppleScript from the command line...

`osascript <<SCRIPT
tell application "Safari"
  do JavaScript "#{script}" in document 1
end tell
SCRIPT`.chomp

This got me started, but it turns out that using an Apple Event bridge like rb-appscript is more natural, and so much faster...

app = AS.app("Safari")
document = app.documents[1]
app.do_JavaScript(script, :in => document)

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