/webdrivers

Keep your Selenium WebDrivers updated automatically

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Webdrivers

Build status

Run Selenium tests more easily with automatic installation and updates for all supported webdrivers.

Description

webdrivers downloads drivers and directs Selenium to use them.

Currently supported:

  • chromedriver
  • geckodriver
  • IEDriverServer
  • MicrosoftWebDriver

Drivers are stored in ~/.webdrivers directory

Usage

in your Gemfile:

gem "webdrivers", "~> 3.0"

in your project:

require 'webdrivers'

If there is a proxy between you and the Internet then you will need to configure the gem to use the proxy. You can do this by calling the configure method.

Webdrivers.configure do |config|
  config.proxy_addr = 'myproxy_address.com'
  config.proxy_port = '8080'
  config.proxy_user = 'username'
  config.proxy_pass = 'password'
end

Note when using Microsoft Edge:

After updating Microsoft Edge on Windows 10, you will need to delete the existing binary (%USERPROFILE%/.webdrivers/MicrosoftWebDriver.exe) to to be able to download the latest version through this gem.

This is because MicrosoftWebDriver.exe is not backwards compatible and it does not have an argument to retrieve the current version. We work around this limitation by querying the current Edge version from the registry and fetching the corresponding binary IF a file does not already exist. If a file does exist, the gem assumes it is the expected version and skips the download process.

If you continue with the outdated binary, Selenium will throw an error: unable to connect to MicrosoftWebDriver localhost:17556.

License

The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License, see LICENSE.txt for full details and copyright.

Contributing

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub.

Copyright

Copyright (c) 2017 Titus Fortner See LICENSE for details