Steps for launching a browser using Capybara and Selenium

I am completely new to utilizing Capybara and have not had any experience with Selenium in the past. Currently, I am working on a Ruby on Rails project on MacOSX and encountering an issue where the browser window does not open when I execute my test. My technology stack includes: Capybara, Selenium, RSpec, and Ruby on Rails. Here is the structure of my test:

describe 'Downloads', js: true do

context ' compress zip and download file' do
  before do
    Capybara.current_driver = :selenium
    session = Capybara::Session.new(:selenium)
    session.visit '/users/sign_in'
    find('#tab_signin').click
    within("#new_user") do
      fill_in 'user_login', :with => '<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection" class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="7716131a1e19371b1814161b591f180403">[email protected]</a>'
      fill_in 'user_password', :with => 'password'
    end
    click_button 'Sign in'
end

it 'downloads the project and navigates to downloads page' do
  visit 'some/path'
  within '.create-download' do
    find(:select).find("option[value='zip']").select_option
  end
  sleep 3
  page.should have_css('#download-modal.in')
end

end end

I have also attempted making changes to my features/support/env.rb file as follows:

Capybara.javascript_driver = :selenium
Capybara.register_driver :selenium do |app|
  profile = Selenium::WebDriver::Firefox::Profile.new
  Capybara::Selenium::Driver.new(app, :browser => :firefox, :profile => profile)
end

Update

Upon running the test, the browser fails to open and displays the following error message:

Failure/Error: visit '/users/sign_in'
 ArgumentError:
   unknown option: {:resynchronize=>true}

Answer №1

After putting in a lot of effort, I finally cracked the code. Huge thanks to @RAJ for pointing me in the right direction with that config info tip. It turns out that the feature/support/env.rb file is meant for cucumber, whereas I'm working with rspec.

Most resources I consulted regarding selenium and capybara instructed to use the js: true option at the beginning of the block, but it just wasn't cutting it. Switching it to feature: true did the trick. Here's how my final solution came together:

describe 'Downloads', feature: true do

context 'compress zip and download file' do
before do

  visit '/users/sign_in'
  find("a[href$='signin']").click
  within("#new_user") do
    fill_in 'user_login', :with => '<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection" class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="2342474e4a4d634f4c40424f0d4b4c5057">[email protected]</a>'
    fill_in 'user_password', :with => 'password'
  end
  click_button 'Sign in'
end

it 'downloads the project and navigates to downloads page' do
  visit 'some/path'
  within '.create-download' do
    find(:select).find("option[value='zip']").select_option
  end
  sleep 3
  page.should have_css('#download-modal.in')

As for my spec_helper.rb, here's a glimpse:

Capybara.register_driver :selenium do |app|
  profile = Selenium::WebDriver::Firefox::Profile.new
  Capybara::Selenium::Driver.new( app, :profile => profile)
end
Capybara.default_wait_time = 10
Capybara.current_driver = :selenium
Capybara.app_host = 'http://localhost:3000'

Another crucial step I took, and one that was unbeknownst to me, was installing the Selenium IDE on Firefox. Being new to Selenium, I mistakenly thought only the gem was needed.

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