I'm the frequent user of watir-webdriver. A fantastic gem, but I have an increasing issue with browsers that newer get closed.
I run an ubuntu machine that processes some background tasks. It fires up a firefox browser through watir-webdriver.
When the computer has been running fore some hours, processing typically more than 100 jobs, the unclosed browsers start to become a problem. They take up memory and eventually jams the computer forcing me to restart.
The problem occurs even though I do something like:
begin
b = Watir::Browser.new :firefox, :profile => 'default'
# Goto a few pages
b.close
rescue => e
b.close
raise e
end
Any idea what I can do to solve it? is there a way to ensure that the processes are forced to quit if an exception occurs? And how I can debug it?
I often see a some timeout exceptions saying unable to bind to locking port or unable to obtain stable connection.
BTW ruby 1.9.3, ubuntu 12.04 watir-webdriver 0.6.1
Try this:
begin
b = Watir::Browser.new :firefox, :profile => 'default'
# Goto a few pages
ensure
b.close
end