SeleniumStandaloneDsl

Gem for using Selenium webdriver simply.

Installation

Ensure you already install Firefox:

sudo apt-get install firefox

If you want to run firefox headlessly, install Xvfb:

sudo apt-get install xvfb

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'selenium_standalone_dsl'

And then execute:

bundle

Or install it yourself as:

gem install selenium_standalone_dsl

Usage

class YahooSearcher < SeleniumStandaloneDsl::Base
  def search_for_wikipedia
    visit 'https://www.yahoo.com/'
    fill_in 'p', with: 'wikipedia'

    # You can declare how to find elements: [class|id|css|xpath]
    click 'IconNavSearch', find_by: :class

    if has_element? :text, 'Next'
      click 'Next'
    end

    # You can use full jQuery CSS selector using 'search'
    puts search('span:contains("results")').inner_text
  end
end

config = {
  log_path: '/tmp/selenium_standalone_dsl.log',
  user_agent: 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1) AppleWebKit/537.36 ' +
              '(KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/51.0.2704.84 Safari/537.36',
  headless: true,
}

driver = YahooSearcher.new(config)
driver.search_for_wikipedia

# => 141,000,000 results

Development

git clone git@github.com:acro5piano/selenium_standalone_dsl.git
cd selenium_standalone_dsl
bundle install --path vendor/bundle
bundle exec rake install
bundle exec rake spec

To release a new version, update the version number in version.rb, and then run bundle exec rake release, which will create a git tag for the version, push git commits and tags, and push the .gem file to rubygems.org.

Contributing

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/acro5piano/selenium_standalone_dsl. This project is intended to be a safe, welcoming space for collaboration, and contributors are expected to adhere to the Contributor Covenant code of conduct.

License

The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.