Comparing Ruby to Selenese
Let's look at the commands we just learned in the IDE and Selenese and how they translate into the Ruby language. In the case of Ruby, we will only look at the key commands and how they translate from Selenese into Ruby. The goal of this exercise is to take away some of the intimidation factor of moving to a programming language for someone who may never have seen software code before.
To start, let's look back at the HTML table that is the Selenese output:
The first line in this table is the name of the test, which happens to be search_test.
The second item, shown in the preceding screenshot is the open command to the root ...
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