convio/watir-webdriver — pull request #7 by Blackbaud-TitusFortner (2014-09-25 20:06:28+00:00)
Title: Add support for specifying explicit wait polling interval

Selenium WebDriver implements the Wait class by instantiating a new Wait object with optional parameters for setting timeout, message and polling interval. In Watir WebDriver the first two are passed into a class method, and the polling interval is hard coded as a constant.

This seems like the easiest way to temporarily change the polling interval without re-implementing the entire Watir Wait class.