Forum: Ruby Increase Default TimeOut in WATIR

hi,
I have been sing WATiR for quite a time. Right now I m working with a
remote system and because of VPN access the pages take long time to
load. I wish to increase WATiR's default waiting time to a user define
seconds. Can any one help me out.

During debuggin my script I came across timeout.rb in Ruby/1.8
directory. Can any one suggest if I need to make changes in this file or
some other file. Or if I can include some timeout module and set it to
my desired value or if there is some global variable that i can set.


Thanks & Regards,
Manav
Bahngalore

I'm not sure about Watir, but using webdriver you just change the 
underlying driver's timeout:

@client = Selenium::WebDriver::Remote::Http::Default.new
@client.timeout = 300 # seconds – default is 60

@driver = Watir::Browser.new :firefox, :http_client => @client