How to use WATIR in IRB

Using WATIR (Web Application Testing In Ruby) in IRB (Interactive Ruby) can be quite useful when trying to build a test script, it can make writing a script much faster. Here’s how to do it:

Open up the Terminal/Command-line interface and type the following:

irb
require 'watir'
browser = Watir::Browser.new

A browser window should have opened up. Now you can execute any of the WATIR commands in the Terminal/CLI to continue building your script!