title: How do I set an option as selected using Selenium WebDriver (selenium 2.0) client in ruby
body: <p>I am trying to get familiar with the new ruby selenium-webdriver as it appears more intuitive mostly than the previous version of selenium and the ruby driver that went with it. Also, i had trouble getting the old selenium to work with ruby 1.9.1 in windows so I thought i'd look for an alternative. 
  So far i've done this with my script:</p>
  
  <pre><code>require "selenium-webdriver"
  
  driver = Selenium::WebDriver.for :firefox
  driver.get "https://example.com"
  
  element = driver.find_element(:name, 'username')
  element.send_keys "mwolfe"
  element = driver.find_element(:name, 'password')
  element.send_keys "mypass"
  driver.find_element(:id, "sign-in-button").click
  driver.find_element(:id,"menu-link-my_profile_professional_info").click
  driver.find_element(:id,"add_education_btn").click
  country_select = driver.find_element(:name, "address_country")
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>So basically I'm logging into my site and trying to add an education entry to my user profile.. I have a reference to a select box with options (in the country_select variable) and now i want to select an option with a given value.. I don't see how to do this in the new client.. The only thing I can think of doing is looping through all the options until I find the one I want, and then call execute_script:
  <a href="http://selenium.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/docs/api/rb/Selenium/WebDriver/Driver.html#execute_script-class_method">http://selenium.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/docs/api/rb/Selenium/WebDriver/Driver.html#execute_script-class_method</a>
  method to set the selectedIndex.</p>
  
  <p>Is there any other way to do this?
  In the java api for selenium 2.0/webdriver here: <a href="http://seleniumhq.org/docs/09_webdriver.html">http://seleniumhq.org/docs/09_webdriver.html</a>
  there is an example of doing this </p>
  
  <pre><code>Select select = new Select(driver.findElement(By.xpath("//select")));
  select.deselectAll();
  select.selectByVisibleText("Edam");
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>It doesn't appear that the ruby version has this feature though unless I'm missing something.
  Any help would be appreciated.</p>