webrat/History.txt

== Trunk (Git)

* _IMPORTANT_ Breaking change:

  * Removed init.rb auto-require of webrat/rails
  * Removed auto-require of webrat/rails when requiring webrat when RAILS_ENV is
    defined
  
  In your env.rb file, ensure you have:
  
    require "webrat/rails"
  
* Major enhancements

  * Added select_time, select_date, and select_datetime to API. [#36] (Ben Mabey)
  * Use Hpricot and REXML when not parsing with Nokogiri (on JRuby, for example)

* Minor enhancements
  * Now sets the mode with configuration.mode in the block (Mike Gaffney, Ticket #85)
  * Detect if the document is XML or HTML using the Content-Type when in Rails mode
  * Expose #selenium method for direct access to Selenium client
  * Check nokogiri gem version before requiring nokogiri
  * Include the Selenium server jar file in the gem (Bryan Helmkamp, Ben Schwarz)
  * Added key_down, key_up and fire_event to Selenium session (Fernando Garcia)
  * Fix outputing README during Rails plugin install (Fernando Garcia)
  * Strip newlines when matching label text (Miha Filej)
  * Add simple support for accessing Webrat's matchers from RSpec by requiring
    "webrat/rspec-rails" (David Chelimsky)
  * Support save_and_open_page in Windows and Cygwin (Mike Gaffney)
  * Added RadioField#checked? to indicated whether or not a radio button is checked
    (Luke Melia)
  * Add spec:jruby rake task for running Webrat's spec suite with JRuby
  * Added field_by_xpath to locate a Webrat::Field using arbitrary XPath expressions
  * Helpful error message for missing option values [#40] (Ben Mabey)
  * Add set_hidden_field method (Noah Davis, Bryan Helmkamp)
  * Add submit_form method for submitting a form by ID (Noah Davis, Bryan Helmkamp)
  * Switch to using Nokogiri.parse for simple XML/XHTML autodetection [#66]
  * Removed Webrat.root method, which seemed to be unused
  * Added Webrat.configure method for global Webrat configuration [#33]
    (Mike Gaffney)
  * Added automatic starting and stopping of the Selenium server and a Mongrel Rails
    app server when using webrat/selenium
  * Switch to using selenium-client gem and vendor selenium-server.jar (Luke Melia)
  * Added gemspec so the gem builds on GitHub now
  * Deprecate old style methods (fills_in is deprecated in favor of fill_in, etc.)
  * Improcements to the README and RDoc (Bryan Helmkamp, Mike Gaffney)
  * Allow clicking links by id and id regexp (Mike Gaffney)
  * Raise Webrat::DisabledFieldError when attempting to manipulate a disabled field
  * Raise Webrat::NotFoundErrors when an element is not found
  * Raise Webrat::PageLoadError when a failure occurs so that application exceptions
    can be more accurately tested (Ryan Briones)
  * Helpful error message for missing option in select box. [#40] (Ben Mabey)

* Bug fixes
  
  * Match against link _text_ which decodes character references.
    Useful for multibyte languages like Japanese (moronatural@gmail.com)
  * Fix params hash generation for Mechanize when Merb is not defined [#62]
  * Expose some Webrat methods that were missing from the Webrat::Methods module
    (Low Chin Chau)
  * Allow mechanize session to pass through basic auth (Ryan Briones)
  * Improvements to the Mechanize support (Jeremy Burks)
  * Fix following fully qualified local links (Lawrence Pit)
  * Fixed bug where Webrat would lose complex parameters (like foo[bar[baz]][])
    in Merb due to not correctly merging Mashes. (Drew Colthorp)
  * Extend Rails' ActionController::IntegrationTest instead of
    ActionController::Integration::Session (Fixes using Webrat's #select method and 
    avoids usage of method_missing)
    
== 0.3.2 / 2008-11-08

* 1 Minor enhancement

  * Fixes behavior or have_tag when a block is passed. It passes the matched node(s)
    to the block for further specs again. (Carl Lerche)
  
== 0.3.1 / 2008-11-07

* 1 Minor enhancement

  * Use @_webrat_session instance variable instead of @session for Merb integration
    to avoid collisions

== 0.3.0 / 2008-11-07

* 4 Major enhancements

  * Added Merb support (Gwyn Morfey, Jeremy Burks, Rob Kaufman, Yehuda Katz)
  * Added experimental Selenium support (Luke Melia)
  * Add have_selector, have_xpath, have_tag and contain matchers from Merb
  * Switch from Hpricot to Nokogiri for XML parsing (thanks, Aaron Patterson)
  
* 37 Minor enhancements

  * Added #within for manipulating the current page within a selector scope
  * Add support for file fields via #attaches_file method (Rails only at the moment)
    (Kyle Hargraves)
  * Add support for simulating SSL requests (Luke Melia)
  * Added #basic_auth(user, pass) to support HTTP Basic Auth (Aslak Hellesøy)
  * Added support for Sinatra and Rack (Aslak Hellesøy)
  * Rename visits to visit, fills_in to fill_in, etc.
  * Add #field_labeled for looking up form fields by label (David Chelimsky)
  * Add #field_named and #field_with_id locators
  * Don't depend on hoe anymore
  * Return responses after sending requests
  * Allow clicking links and buttons by a regular expression in Selenium (Luke Melia)
  * Allow clicking links by a regular expression
  * Add #http_accept for including MIME type HTTP "Accept" headers (Ryan Briones)
  * Add #header to support inclusion of custom HTTP headers (Ryan Briones)
  * Consider response codes 200-499 as successful enough to not raise a Webrat error
    (David Leal)
  * Add support for clicking areas of an image map (Alex Lang)
  * Support relative links, including href="?foo=bar" (Kyle Hargraves)
  * Separated Rails-specific code from the Webrat core to make it easier to use
    Webrat with other environments
  * Alias visits as visit, clicks_link as click_link, etc. for better readability
  * Raise error when trying to interact with a disabled form element (Luke Melia)
  * Don't send disabled form elements to the server (Nicholas A. Evans)
  * Display response body when the page load is not successful (David Leal)
  * CGI escape form field values (Miha Filej)
  * Add support for redirect_to :back by sending HTTP_REFERER headers
    (Hendrik Volkmer)
  * Expose current DOM (as an Hpricot object) as #current_dom
  * Add support for disabling JavaScript when clicking a link to enable testing of
    both JS and non-JS implementations (Luke Melia and Bryan Helmkamp)
  * Support &nbsp's as spaces in matching link text (Luke Melia)
  * Support button elements (Nick Sieger)
  * Support matching select options by regexp (Kyle Hargraves)
  * save_and_open_page rewrites css and image references to provide a friendlier
    debugging experience (Luke Melia)
  * Added support for matching alt attributes in fields (primarly for clicks_button)
    (Aaron Quint)
  * Support '&' in submitted values (Kyle Hargraves)
  * Support clicking links by title (Dan Barry)
  * Added missing spec for clicking image buttons (Tim Harper)
  * Switched tests to specs, and from Mocha to RSpec's mocking library
  * Add support to click_button for IDs (Gwyn Morfey)
  * Miscellaneous core refactorings (Jan Suchal)
  
* 8 Bug fixes

  * Fix initialization of WWW::Mechanize (Derek Kastner)
  * Don't open blank pages in the browser (Kyle Hargraves)
  * Support radio buttons with multiple labels (Dan Barry)
  * Fix load order bug on some platforms (Ismael Celis)
  * Fix bug with empty select list option (Kyle Hargraves)
  * Fix regression of not sending default values in password fields
  * Don't explode if encountering inputs with no type attribute (assume text)
  * Fix bug where choosing a radio button in a series with a default submitted the
    incorrect field value (Luke Melia)
  
== 0.2.0 / 2008-04-04

* 4 Major enhancements

  * Add save_and_open_page to aid in debugging
  * Add radio button support via #chooses method
  * Add basic support for Rails-generated JavaScript link tags
  * Add support for checkboxes (Patches from Kyle Hargraves and Jarkko Laine)
  * Add support for textarea fields (Sacha Schlegel)
  
* 8 Minor enhancements
  
  * Added reloads method to reload the page (Kamal Fariz Mahyuddi)
  * Prevent making a request if clicking on local anchor link (Kamal Fariz Mahyuddi)
  * Added clicks_link_within(selector, link_text), allowing restricting link search 
    to within a given css selector (Luke Melia)
  * Allow specifying the input name/label when doing a select (David Chelimsky)
  * Raise a specific exception if the developer tries to manipulate form elements
    before loading a page (James Deville)
  * Add support for alternate POST, PUT and DELETE link clicking (Kyle Hargraves)
  * Change clicks_link to find the shortest matching link (Luke Melia)
  * Improve matching for labels in potentially ambiguous cases
  
* 7 Bug fixes

  * Fix incorrect serializing of collection inputs, i.e. name contains []
    (Kamal Fariz Mahyuddi)
  * Serialize empty text field values just like browsers (Kamal Fariz Mahyuddi)
  * Quick fix to avoid @dom not initialized warnings (Kamal Fariz Mahyuddi)
  * Docfix: bad reference to #select method in README (Luke Melia)
  * Ensure Rails-style checkboxes work properly (checkboxes followed by a hidden
    input with the same name)
  * Fix Edge Rails (a.k.a. 2.0 RC) compatibility (David Chelimsky)
  * Support param hashes nested more than one level (David Chelimsky)

== 0.1.0 / 2007-11-28

* 1 major enhancement

  * Birthday!