Using Watir to automate web browsers with Ruby | ScrapingBee

For years, it’s been possible to automate simple tasks on a computer when those tasks have been executed using the command line. This is known as scripting. A bigger challenge, however, is to control the browser since a GUI introduces a lot more variability in how elements act.Browser automation describes the process of programmatically performing certain actions in the browser (or handing these actions over to robots) that might otherwise be quite tedious or repetitive to be performed manually by a human.