Accessing sequential same elements in Watir Ruby - html

Question

I am trying to access sequential elements and don't know how to advance the the script down the page. So, here is a snippet of the code.
<div class="card highlighted">
<div class="card-fix">
<a class="card-remove icon" title="Don't show member again" onclick="$jq( '#search-results' ).msg( 'remove', this )" data-userid="93872246">
X
</a>
<dl></dl>
<div class="card-actions">
<a class="quickview" title="Quick view" onclick="$jq('#dialog-profile').msg('show', '/profileinfo/SearchProfi…lTseEdmEQ==&lid=1&searchType=S&pageNumber=1'); return false;" href="#"></a>
<a class="button button-primary" title="Favorite her!" href="/matchbook/addEntry.aspx?uid=Mu/BwYPn0nxhWlTseEdmEQ==&pn=1&rn=4&tp=S&handle=Annie5170&lid=1065"></a>
</div>
</div>
<div class="card-fix">
<a class="card-remove icon" title="Don't show member again" onclick="$jq( '#search-results' ).msg( 'remove', this )" data-userid="108272583"></a>
<dl></dl>
<div class="card-actions">
<a class="quickview" title="Quick view" onclick="$jq('#dialog-profile').msg('show', '/profileinfo/SearchProfi…DA3R3daaQ==&lid=1&searchType=S&pageNumber=1'); return false;" href="#"></a>
<a class="button button-primary" title="Favorite her!" href="/matchbook/addEntry.aspx?uid=y98x/Mj+hc+61DA3R3daaQ==&pn=1&rn=4&tp=S&handle=dancer4498&lid=1065"></a>
</div>
</div>
In other words I need to continue looping through these quickviews and then running a small script and doing it all again. Then go to the next page and do it again...etc. However, if I use this now in a loop it will only pick up the first quickview 5 times.
# 5.times do |n|
# browser.link(:title => 'Quick view').click
# sleep (2)
# browser.link(:class => "icon dialog-abandon").click
# # sleep (2)
# end
So my question is how can I have it advance through all of the quick views which there are 18 per page.
It would also be great to be able to save the
data-user-id="93872246"
and the portion after the handle in the href, ie.
handle=Annie5710
in a file in a hash as well.
Thanks and I appreciate all of the help.

Answer 1

You have to do this:
//get total title in a page
totalTitleSize=browser.link(:title => 'Quick view').size
and looping it:
totalTitleSize.times do |n|
browser.link(:title => 'Quick view', :index=> n).click
sleep (2)
//test it or use index in it If you need
browser.link(:class => "icon dialog-abandon").click
sleep (2)
end

Answer 2

this should be added to the code.
browser.link(:title => 'Quick view', :index=> n).click
now everything works fine.

Answer 3

As the other answers show, the problem is that the line:
browser.link(:title => 'Quick view').click
Will always click the first matching link. Using the :index allows you to override the default first match. However, I would argue the better solution is to get a collection of matching links and iterate through that. It will save you from manually handling the index.
browser.links(:title => 'Quick view').each do |link|
link.click
sleep (2)
browser.link(:class => "icon dialog-abandon").click
sleep (2)
end
Notice here that we have created a collection using links that we iterate though using each.
However, since you also want to collect other data, you might want to iterate through the parent divs:
browser.divs(:class => 'card-fix').each do |parent_div|
puts parent_div.link(:class => 'card-remove').data_userid
#=> "93872246"
href = parent_div.button(:class => 'button-primary').href
puts href[/handle=([^&]+)/, 1]
#=> "Annie5170"
parent_div.link(:class => "quickview").click
sleep (2)
browser.link(:class => "icon dialog-abandon").click
sleep (2)
end