Ruby, Cucumber and Watir Automation Scripting Basics

Greetings my friends,Thank y'all all within the community and the moderators for being so cool and willing to help so quickly! Just wanted to lead in with that. So I could really use some help with this basic automation script that I am running. I am trying to select the search bar on Google.com and enter some text. I have gotten some help from friends but they were stuck as well. But it learning this I was hoping to get some help from the experts and just ask these questions that I have because Google ain't got shit!1) How to select the search field and enter text. # Mine looks something like this I've tried xpath, different values, id's classes.require 'ruby'require 'water-webdrivrer'browser Browser::browser.new :firefoxbrowser.goto 'http://google.com'$browser.text_field( :value = 'Search').set('google search')2)When I inspect...
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Kenoli Oleari1 wrote:
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create a SQL job and run
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To make a few things clear I have created a Video of the issue.
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