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copied!<p>I had such problems here and there and the solution was to catch the exception and re-run the piece of code that triggered this exception. Of course, I'm assuming your exception is triggered by some transient cause, possibly by a glitch in Watir.</p> <p>Briefly, you could do something like this:</p> <pre><code>begin $browser.a(:href, "#{$url}/admin/").exists? rescue Timeout::Error puts("Caught a TIMEOUT ERROR!") sleep(1) # Retry the sode that generates the esception. retry end </code></pre> <p>That's the simplest form. You could also make sure not to lock up yourself in an infinite loop by doing something like:</p> <pre><code>retries_left = 3 begin $browser.a(:href, "#{$url}/admin/").exists? rescue Timeout::Error puts("Caught a TIMEOUT ERROR!") # You may want to wait for a while before retrying. sleep(1) # Retry the code that generates the exception. retries_left -= 1 retry if retries_left > 0 # No more retries left - time to bail out! Re-raise the exception. raise end </code></pre> <p>You could improve this a bit by abstracting this exception handling code into a test helper method that accepts blocks and use it in a much more cleaner way, without repeating yourself, like:</p> <pre><code>handle_transient_exceptions { $browser.a(:href, "#{$url}/admin/").exists? } </code></pre> <p>But that's not what you asked about. :)</p> <p>Referring to your third question, I can say that watir-webdriver supports the latest Chrome, Firefox and IE9 pretty well. I'm working with these browsers currently and haven't spotted any blocking issues yet.</p>

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