[Wtr-general] Setting a timeout on ie.goto()?

[John Fitisoff]

<<The problem we're running into is that some of the
pages we access occasionally NEVER finish loading.>>

Yup. I'm working on multithreaded tests and that seems
to happen (not a lot, but then it doesn't have to
happen a lot to mess things up). You can use Ruby's
timeout library to set a timeout value for an action
or series of actions and then rescue the timeout
exception when it occurs. something like the example
below should work. But someone else out there may have
a simpler way of dealing with it. 
----------------------------

require 'watir'
require 'timeout'
include Watir

ie = IE.new

def timeout
  begin
    timeout(120.0) do |timeout_length|		        
      ie.goto("www.yoursite.com")		        
    end
  rescue Timeout::Error => e
    puts e
    ie.close
  end
end  



--- Steve Tangsombatvisit <sbtang1 at hotmail.com> wrote:

> Hi folks,
> 
> Relatively new to using Ruby/Watir...  I have a
> quick question about the ie.goto statement, is there
> a way to set a timeout for this call so that if the
> webpage does not complete loading with X amount of
> seconds the call terminates?
> 
> The problem we're running into is that some of the
> pages we access occasionally NEVER finish loading.
> On the IE status bar (bottom left) we'll see a
> message that says "Opening Page XXXX" or " (1 Item
> Remaining) Opening Page XXXXX" and that message will
> persist forever (as far as we can tell)... So our
> scripts are hanging at the ie.goto call cause the
> page never loads completely.
> 
> Any tips you guys can give me?
> 
> Thanks,
> Steve>
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