Selenium doesn't open firefox

Question

When I run a test using cucumber and selenium, the browser "firefox" is opened only the first time I run the test.
Then each time I run the test, it fails with error "execution expired (Timeout::Error)"

I'm on Ubuntu 12.04, Ruby 1.8.7 , Rails 2.3.5.

gem list :

• capybara (1.1.2)
• cucumber (1.2.0)
• cucumber-rails (0.3.2)
• selenium-client (1.2.18)
• selenium-webdriver (2.21.1)
• webrat (0.7.3)

Answer 1

I had the same issue. I don't know the reason but installing the gem launchy solved it. Check it out if this is helpful https://github.com/copiousfreetime/launchy