How do I use selenium with Ruby?

I figured it out after a few hours of searching on forums and through google.

What I needed to do was have the selenium server running for it to work. I was able to download it from this site http://seleniumhq.org/download/ (current: Selenium RC February 23, 2010 1.0.3).

From there I opened up a new terminal and did

cd Downloads/selenium-remote-control-1.0.3/selenium-server-1.0.3java -jar selenium-server.jar

Then ran my ruby generated script with another terminal window

ruby google_test.rb

And it worked!

This is Selenium Webdriver example for simple google searchSave as google_search.rb

require "selenium-webdriver"require "test/unit"class GoogleSearch < Test::Unit::TestCase  def setup    @driver = Selenium::WebDriver.for :firefox    @base_url = "http://www.google.com/"    @driver.manage.timeouts.implicit_wait = 30    @verification_errors = []  end  def teardown    @driver.quit    assert_equal [], @verification_errors  end  def test_google_search    @driver.get(@base_url)    @driver.find_element(:name, "q").clear    @driver.find_element(:name, "q").send_keys "Thiyagarajan Veluchamy"    @driver.find_element(:name, "btnK").click  end  def element_present?(how, what)    @driver.find_element(how, what)    true  rescue Selenium::WebDriver::Error::NoSuchElementError    false  end  def verify(&blk)    yield  rescue Test::Unit::AssertionFailedError => ex    @verification_errors << ex  endend

$ruby google_search.rb

Here is a much simpler version of the script:

require "selenium-webdriver"@driver = Selenium::WebDriver.for :chrome@base_url = "http://www.google.com/"@driver.get(@base_url)@driver.find_element(:name, "q").send_keys "Stack Overflow"

Methods available on the @driver object can be found here: http://selenium.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/docs/api/rb/Selenium/WebDriver/Driver.html

find_element gives you access to the Element class. Methods available on the Element class can be found here:http://selenium.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/docs/api/rb/Selenium/WebDriver/Element.html