Watir, Page-objects: how to get all elements that have the same identifier - webdriver

Question

I have the following code code on my page I wanna check:
...
<p class="tags-link">
test1
test2
test3
</p>
....
<p class="tags-link">
test4
test5
test6
</p>
....
I use Watir-webdriver and page-object. And I need to get all links related to blocks with "tags-link" class.
I have the following code:
element(:tags, :p, :css => "tags-link a")
tags_element returns the 1st link only.
The following code will give me just 3 links related to the 1st block:
element(:tags, :p, :css => "tags-link")
tags_element.element.links.each do |elm|
puts elm
end
But I need to get all tags blocks
Now I have the following code that works, but I wanna be "page-object" oriented :
#browser.elements(:css =>".tags-link a").each do |tag|
puts tag
end
Could you please help me...to get all links on the page related to "tags-link" using page-objects
Thanks,
Anna

Answer 1

You can define a collection of links in your page object using links:
class MyPage
include PageObject
links(:tag_link, :css =>".tags-link a")
end
This will create a collection_name_elements method that returns an array of matching page-object elements. You can iterate over it to perform an action on each element. For example, to output the text of each link:
page.tag_link_elements.each do |link|
puts link.text
end
#=> test1
#=> test2
#=> test3
#=> test4
#=> test5
#=> test6

Answer 2

This is all you need to do:
ary_of_tests = #browser.ps(:class, 'tag-links').map do |t|
t.as.map do |x|
x.text
end
end
=> [["test1", "test2", "test3"], ["test4", "test5", "test6"]]
If you do not like dynamic arrays you can always use the flatten method to make it one dimensional or to_s method to make it into a string. Defining a new class and specifying scenarios seems like overkill to me, but to each his own.
Note: ps(:class, 'tag-links) is a collection of all p elements with attribute class and value tag-links in the DOM of a given page.