selenium-rc

selenium-rc is a convenient ruby wrapper for the Selenium Standalone Server jar (formerly Selenium RC Server) packaged as a gem. This gem bundles the latest selenium-server-standalone-version.jar file and provides a binary and Ruby library to manage it.

Version

The current version of this gem (2.20.0) packages Selenium Standalone Server 2.20.0 - http://selenium.googlecode.com/files/selenium-server-standalone-2.20.0.jar

Basic Ruby Usage

server = SeleniumRC::Server.boot('localhost')
#=> Starts a Selenium Server accessible via http://localhost:4444 (the default port)

server = SeleniumRC::Server.boot('localhost', 8888)
#=> Starts a Selenium Server accessible via http://localhost:8888

server = SeleniumRC::Server.boot('localhost', 8888, :args => ["-browserSideLog", "-suppressStupidness"])
#=> Starts a Selenium Server accessible via http://localhost:8888 and passes arbitrary options to Selenium

server = SeleniumRC::Server.boot('localhost', 8888, :timeout => 120)
#=> Starts a Selenium Server accessible via http://localhost:8888 and waits 120 seconds before timing out

server.stop
#=> Stops the running Selenium Server

Basic Command Line Usage

$ selenium-rc
#=> Starts a Selenium Server on localhost and the default port (4444)

$ export SELENIUM_SERVER_PORT=8888
$ selenium-rc
#=> Starts a Selenium Server on localhost on port 8888

License

This software redistributes the Selenium Standalone Server (selenium-server.jar) in an unmodified form. The Selenium Server is licensed under the Apache License 2.0.

All other software contained within is licensed under the MIT License. See the MIT.LICENSE file in this project for details

Links & More Info

SeleniumHQ

Selenium Project on Google Code

Pivotal Labs