From: Ben Lovell <benjamin.lovell@...>
Date: 2009-07-01T22:03:28+09:00
Subject: Re: Using selenium in a ruby program

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On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 12:43 PM, Kga Agk <lord_kga@yahoo.no> wrote:

> I got it to work in ruby, but I have to start the selenium servver
> manualy before I runn the program. That is unesesary mutch work and
> complicated. Is there a way to start the selenium server inside the code
> and stop it at the end?
>
>
> Here is a code example i got to work... it is a bit messy
>
>
>
>    require 'rubygems'
> gem 'thoughtbot-shoulda'
> require 'shoulda'
>
>
> require 'spec'
> require 'spec/story'
>
> require 'test/unit'
>    require "rubygems"
>    gem "selenium-client", ">=1.2.15"
>    require "selenium/client"
>    require "selenium"
>
>
>    describe "test" do
>
>      before :all do
>        @browser = Selenium::Client::Driver.new \
>          :host => "localhost",
>          :port => 4444,
>          :browser => "*firefox",
>          :url => "http://www.google.com",
>          :timeout_in_second => 60
>      end
>      after :all do
>        @browser.close_current_browser_session
>      end
>
>
>      it "test1" do
>        @browser.start_new_browser_session
>        @browser.open "/"
>        @browser.type "q", "Selenium seleniumhq.org"
>        @browser.click "btnG", :wait_for => :page
>        assert @browser.text?("seleniumhq.org")
>      end
>    end
>
>
>
>
> What do I need to add to get it to start the selenium server automaticly
> and stop it at the end?
> --
> Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
>
>
You might want to take a look at Webrat if you haven't already [0] You can
fairly easily switch between a simulated browser (if you don't need to test
javascript) or run in automated mode i.e. selenium.

[0] http://gitrdoc.com/brynary/webrat/tree/master/

Rgds,
Ben

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