Selenium Design Patterns and Best Practices

Writing a Selenium test in Ruby

In this section, we will implement our test case completely in Ruby. Writing a test in a new language can be intimidating, but don't despair because we will walk through and talk about every command we use. This book will not make you a great Ruby developer, but it will get you comfortable enough to write tests on your own!

Note

At this point, it is assumed that you already have Ruby and the selenium-webdriver gem installed on your computer. Please refer to Appendix, Getting Started with Selenium, for step-by-step installation instructions.

Our fully ported test into Ruby looks like this:

require 'rubygems'
require 'selenium-webdriver'

selenium = Selenium::WebDriver.for(:firefox)
selenium.get("http://awful-valentine.com/") ...