How to use watir-webdriver to wait for page load

Question

Using watir-webdriver, how do I wait for a page to load after I click a link?

At the moment I am using:

sleep n

But this is not ideal a

Answer 1

I had the same problem, and I tried to fix it by combining wait_until_present and

until browser.div(:id=>"some_div").exists? do sleep 1 end

tricks povided by @marc:

some_div = browser.div(:id => 'some_div')

begin 

  Watir::Wait.until
    some_div.visible?
  end

rescue Watir::Wait::TimeoutError

  until some_div.visible?
    sleep 1
  end
end

Notice that it is your own responsibility to make sure that

div(:id => "some_div")

does exist.