watir - ruby code "undefined method present? pr exist"

Question

    require 'rubygems'
    require "watir"

    browser = Watir::Browser.new :chrome,:switches => %w[--disable-notifications]
    i=0;
    begin

    #TODO logining to the facebook
    browser.goto 'linkedin.com'
    browser.text_field(:id => 'login-email').set '[email protected]'
    browser.text_field(:id => 'login-password').set 'ru09ec32'
    browser.button(type: 'submit').click

    puts '**** linkedin logged in ****'

    sea = browser.div(:class => 'nav-search-bar')
    puts sea
    if sea.exits?
    browser.div(:class => 'nav-search-bar').click
    browser.div(:class => 'type-ahead-input-container').text_field.set 'wipro'
    browser.button(:class => 'nav-search-button').click
    puts '**** searched, the results for wipro is shown '
    else
    puts 'div not present'
    end


    side = browser.div(:class => 'right-rail search-right-rail')
    puts side
    if side.present?
    puts 'div present'
    side1 = browser.divs(:class => 'right-rail search-right-rail')
    else
    puts 'div not present'
    end



    #TODO exception handling
    rescue Exception => e
    p "Error Found..... #{e.message}"
    end

The error is thrown while executing the above simply, I am able to found the div in real time but I am unable to check the div using if commands, I have also tried some codes like exists.

Answer 1

First of all, this line if sea.exits? is wrong, change this to if sea.exists?

And your code is perfect, but very minute changes require to effectuate the WATIR's predefined wait statement.

You used this statement

side = browser.div(:class => 'right-rail search-right-rail')

If you write this way, then WATIR's predefined wait doesn't work because the method which you are going to call upon Watir::Div object is where four checking happens,

for an example, if you call

browser.div(:class => 'right-rail search-right-rail').click

then these four following checking will happen

1)exist?
2)enabled?
3)present?
4)writable?

But if you don't call any function as I have shown then it will NOT return the element because statement is getting executed even before element is loaded, So as a result of that side.present? is false and it gives you the result that div not present

So change your code in the following way

browser.div(:class => 'right-rail search-right-rail').click
  side = browser.div(:class => 'right-rail search-right-rail')
  puts side
  if side.present?
    puts 'div present'
    side1 = browser.divs(:class => 'right-rail search-right-rail')
  else
    puts 'div not present'
  end

Now your code will work perfectly. present method will return true for you.