Use Chrome with Cucumber & Capybara
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We frequently swap out Firefox for Chrome in our selenium (@javascript) cucumber tests. It is actually very easy, but not widely known.
Update: I got some questions about why we’d use Chrome. Speed hasn’t been the issue (use capybara-webkit for that) but we have found some things that work better in Chrome vs Firefox (and vice-versa). Also, you get different rendering options and different standards support (for example, websockets). If you’re having test problems, switching probably isn’t your solution, but you can always try.
Step 1 - Tell Capybara about Chrome
Inside your features/support/env.rb add these lines:
Capybara.register_driver :chrome do |app|
Capybara::Selenium::Driver.new(app, :browser => :chrome)
end
Capybara.javascript_driver = :chrome
Step 2 - Install chromedriver
If you’re using homebrew on OS X (and why wouldn’t you?) simply install using:
brew install chromedriver
Otherwise, download it manually and make sure it is in your path (I typically put it in /usr/local/bin).
Step 3 - Run the features
Run your features and anything tagged with @javascript or @selenium is now running in Chrome instead of Firefox. Yay!
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Comments
Thanks mate, this works fiine, but do you know how to override the user agent of the chrome browser? i’ve seen alot of tutorials but only with Firefox, but i much rather do it with chrome browser.
@glenn: see https://makandracards.com/makandra/8381-run-chrome-in-a-specific-resolution-or-user-agent-with-selenium.
no able to find inner html of an element
eg
Hello World
not able o get value “Hello World”
Using cucumber, capybara and crome driver
All Latest versions
Does not work on mavricks
My env.rb looks like this:
Capybara.default_selector = :css
Capybara.register_driver :selenium do |app|
Capybara::Selenium::Driver.new(app, :browser => :chrome, :switches => %w[–test-type]) #comment it out!!!
end
ActionController::Base.allow_rescue = false
begin
DatabaseCleaner.strategy = :transaction
rescue NameError
raise “You need to add database_cleaner to your Gemfile (in the :test group) if you wish to use it.”
end
Cucumber::Rails::Database.javascript_strategy = :truncation
that’s the parts that are not commented out anyway. It works great. I would like to test in firefox as well, and ideally eventually with other browsers. How do I switch back to firefox?
thanks.
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Thank you!!!! I did not install Mercury Reader because I use Firefox but it has an add on simply titled “Reader” and it is fantastic. Your article motivated me to look it up.