Watir: "unexpected alert open" error thrown when trying to refresh page after manually closing alert

Question

I've created an instance of `Watir::Browser` with chrome set as the browser. ``` b = Watir::Browser.new :chrome ``` If I manually close an alert and then try to refresh the page using ``` b.refresh ``` the following error is thrown: ``` Selenium::WebDriver::Error::UnhandledAlertError: unexpected alert open (Session info: chrome=28.0.1500.95) (Driver info: chromedriver=2.2,platform=Windows NT 6.1 x86_64) from C:/ruby193/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/selenium-webdriver-2.35.0/lib/selenium/webdriver/remote/response.rb:51:in assert_ok' from C:/ruby193/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/selenium-webdriver-2.35.0/lib/selenium/webdriver/remote/response.rb:15:in initialize' from C:/ruby193/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/selenium-webdriver-2.35.0/lib/selenium/webdriver/remote/http/common.rb:59:in new' from C:/ruby193/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/selenium-webdriver-2.35.0/lib/selenium/webdriver/remote/http/common.rb:59:in create_response' from C:/ruby193/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/selenium-webdriver-2.35.0/lib/selenium/w…

Accepted Answer

I was facing this problem too:

But I am successfully get rid of it by putting it in a `begin-rescue` block.

Here is how:

```
  begin
    # put line of code which triggers alert on page
  rescue Selenium::WebDriver::Error::UnhandledAlertError
    @browser.alert.ok 
  end
```

Watir: "unexpected alert open" error thrown when trying to refresh page after manually closing alert

Solution

Problem