Forum: Ruby no element found error with selenium-webdriver

For the below code I am getting error as "no element found"


if download_field_name == "form :"

if (download_link =~ /fileEntityId=\d+/) != nil

#driver.find_element(:link, link_text).click
puts @extension
puts link_text
driver.find_element(:link, link_text).click if
[".pdf",".gif",".bmp",".tif",".jpeg",".jpg"].include?(@extension)

end

end

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C:\Documents and Settings\My Documents\userdata\Ruby\Scripts>dwonloadv4
.rb
.bmp
Gaurav Kapoor  BR.bmp
.txt
Timothy L. Casbeer W9.txt
.bmp
Jason Mattiace  BR.bmp
.docx
Reimbursements.docx
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Are the below text is culprit - "Gaurav Kapoor  BR.bmp" - this is
present in the webpage, but above code is saying not found.

You have 2 spaces in that link name.
Also you're not doing any checks to ensure that the name you provide 
actually exists.

I did check but for some of the files it is happening. Those are present
in the webpage. But instead clicking throwing errors:

here is the code:

if download_field_name == "form :"

if (download_link =~ /fileEntityId=\d+/) != nil

#driver.find_element(:link, link_text).click
puts @extension
puts link_text

begin

driver.find_element(:link, link_text).click if
[".docx",".doc",".pdf",".gif",".bmp",".tif",".jpeg",".jpg",".txt"].include?(@extension)

rescue => e

wbs.cells(rows,4).value = link_text

raise

end

end

end

Yes, There is two spaces but How should I handle this on the page,as the
webpage is read only. I am just downloading files which has the
extensions match only. But above mentioned files are not only
downloaded,whereas they present there.

Don't know why - `driver.find_element(:link, link_text).click` not 
worked when string within the `link_text` has more than one spaces 
between words. But anyway workaround I found is :

link_text.squeeze!(" ").strip! # to remove multiple spaces

If you want multiple spaces in HTML to be displayed as such, you need to 
use non-breaking spaces: "&nbsp" in HTML.

Joel Pearson wrote in post #1099119:
> If you want multiple spaces in HTML to be displayed as such, you need to
> use non-breaking spaces: "&nbsp" in HTML.


Didn't understand you. BTW link_text is the file names to be downloaded 
from the webpage. webpage is from third party. And I managed it by using 
`strip` and `squeeze`. Don't know why the `driver` couldn't find out 
with in between multiple spaces.

Thanks

This is a well known feature of HTML and has information available all 
over the internet. Here's one example:

http://codes.codedigest.com/CodeDigest/76-Display-...

Joel Pearson wrote in post #1099125:
> This is a well known feature of HTML and has information available all
> over the internet. Here's one example:
>
> http://codes.codedigest.com/CodeDigest/76-Display-...

Thanks Joel :) for sharing the link for my self learning. :)

Amway long days no see. :)

You might want to look into this for dealing multiple spaces in your 
input:

http://www.ruby-doc.org/core-2.0/String.html#metho...