Standalone testing using ruby 1.9.2, selenium-client and rspec (without rails)

Question

Has anyone successfully set up a standalone environment for using ruby 1.9.2, selenium-client, and rspec to test a NON-RAILS website.

I have scoured the web but I cannot seem to get the magic formula. There are gem version conflicts, missing libraries, etc. At this point I am totally confused.

BASIC PROBLEM: I have many test suites and tests ceated using SeleniumIDE 1.0.10 for a NON-RAILS application (IIS/ASP). I SIMPLY want to use the converted tests that the SeleniumIDE can provide and run them using ruby or better yet rake. (Note that the SeleniumIDE can create RSpec or Test/Unit tests and I would be love to get either working).

As I understand it the selenium-client has rake tasks to start/stop the SeleniumRC server and to run tests. But for the life of me I cannot get any of this this going.

I can provide more information if need be. But, at this point I would be happy to know of anyone that is also going down this road.

-Thanks!

P.S. I am doing this as a prelude to hybridizing the IIS/ASP application with rails and iteratively going to a full conversion. If I cannot get this first step going my bosses are going to nix the whole idea of going to rails, so please help ;-)

Mike Jr Mike Jr · Accepted Answer · 2011-12-15T00:06:27

You will need to gem install 'rspec' and 'selenium-client'. I have ruby 1.9.2 installed and yes, I use rvm. I apologize for the firefox_version nonsense. I have multiple firefox versions installed on my Macbook. If you have a single firefox installed then simply specify :browser => "*firefox"

You will need to open two Terminal windows. In the first, start the selenium-server.jar.

In the second window, cd to the directory containing rspec_hello.rb and enter ruby ./rspec_hello.rb

Here is rspec_hello.rb

    require "rubygems"         # >= 1.8.12
    require 'rspec'            # >= 2.1.0
    require "selenium/client"  # >= 1.2.18

    describe "google" do
      # attr_reader :selenium_driver
      @selenium_driver = nil

      before(:each) do
        firefox_version = 3
        firefox_path = "/Applications/Firefox" + firefox_version.to_s + ".app/Contents/MacOS/firefox-bin"
        @selenium_driver = Selenium::Client::Driver.new \
          :host => "localhost",
          :port => 4444,
          :browser => "*firefox #{firefox_path}",
          :url => "http://www.google.com/",
          :timeout_in_second => 60
          @selenium_driver.start
      end

      after(:each) do
        puts " "
        puts "goodbye world"
        @selenium_driver.close_current_browser_session
      end

      it "test google" do
        puts "hello world"
        @selenium_driver.open "/"
        @selenium_driver.type "q", "selenium wiki"
        @selenium_driver.click "btnG"
        @selenium_driver.wait_for_text("Selenium Wiki")
    @selenium_driver.text?("Selenium Wiki").should be_true
  end
end

Standalone testing using ruby 1.9.2, selenium-client and rspec (without rails)

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