Scott Hanselman

Folks keep calling after 9pm and waking the baby. We use Vonage, and I really wish they had a feature where I could indicate "do not call" times. Alas, they don't. So, then I wished for a Vonage Web Service. Nope.

So, instead here's a Watir script, recorded with a early version of Michael Kelly and John Hann's port of WatirMaker to Ruby (via "ruby watirmaker.rb > myscript.rb") then edited to taste.

#Enable Instant Forward to Voice Mail
require 'watir'
include Watir

ie = IE.new
ie.goto( 'http://www.vonage.com/' )

ie.text_field( :name, 'username' ).set( 'username' )
ie.text_field( :name, 'password' ).set( 'password' )
ie.button( :name, 'submit' ).click

ie.link(:text,"Features").click

ie.button( :name, 'callForwardingButton' ).click

ie.select_list( :name, 'callForwardingSeconds' ).select( 'Instantly' )
ie.text_field( :name, 'singleAddress' ).set( '15035551234' )

ie.button(:value,'Enable').click

ie.link(:text,"Log Out").click
ie.close

And the disable...

require 'watir'
include Watir

ie = IE.new
ie.goto( 'http://www.vonage.com/' )

ie.text_field( :name, 'username' ).set( 'username')
ie.text_field( :name, 'password' ).set( 'password' )
ie.button( :name, 'submit' ).click

ie.link(:text,"Features").click

ie.button( :name, 'callForwardingButton' ).click

ie.button(:value,'Disable').click

ie.link(:text,"Log Out").click
ie.close

These now run on a schedule in my house using the Windows Scheduler. If you run them like 'ruby enable.rb -b' they run in the background and you'll never see Internet Explorer.

About Scott

Scott Hanselman is a former professor, former Chief Architect in finance, now speaker, consultant, father, diabetic, and Microsoft employee. He is a failed stand-up comic, a cornrower, and a book author.

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