IOS Browser Scroll for Ruby/Capybara?

kj_brown · April 1, 2015, 10:59am

Hi all,

I’m trying to use the scroll_down and scroll_up methods as a part of the appium_capybara gem, but I’m unfortunately getting a false positive on my tests - they’re passing, but watching the simulator in action it’s not moving whatsoever.

Should I simply run browser.scroll_down or is there a way of specifying distances that I’m missing?

tagging @bootstraponline as they’re pretty hot when it comes to this particular gem.

bootstraponline · April 1, 2015, 9:37pm

Gestures on the iOS simulator are broken, this is an issue that impacts anyone using the simulator (not related to Ruby). As a work around there’s a mobile scroll method. See the appium server issue tracker for details.

kj_brown · April 2, 2015, 8:38am

I did also try mobile:Scroll, but it seems to do nothing as well.ScrollTo appears to be a better implementation, but that came up with a whacking great error trace.

bootstraponline · April 2, 2015, 9:26pm

You could also try scrollToVisible via execute script.

github.com

appium-boneyard/appium-uiauto/blob/1ce18661074ba57e8402f894b17339f0211347cd/uiauto/vendors/mechanic.js#L545


    },
    dragInside: function(options) {
        return this.each(function() { this.dragInsideWithOptions(options); });
    },
    flick: function(options) {
        return this.each(function() { this.flickInsideWithOptions(options); });
    },
    rotate: function(options) {
        return this.each(function() { this.rotateWithOptions(options); });
    },
    scrollToVisible: function() {
        if (this.length > 0) this[0].scrollToVisible();
        return this;
    },
    input: function(s) {
        if (this.length > 0) {
            this[0].tap();
            $.input(s);
        }
    }
});

In general scrolling is busted on the iOS simulator due to Apple.