Easy installation and use of chromedriver, the Chromium project's selenium webdriver adapter.

• http://github.com/flavorjones/chromedriver-helper

chromedriver-helper installs an executable, chromedriver, in your gem path.

This script will, if necessary, download the appropriate binary for your platform and install it into ~/.chromedriver-helper, then exec it. Easy peasy!

chromedriver is fast. By my unscientific benchmark, it's around 20% faster than webdriver + Firefox 8. You should use it!

If you're using Bundler and Capybara, it's as easy as:

# Gemfile
gem "chromedriver-helper"

then, in your specs:

Capybara.register_driver :selenium do |app|
  Capybara::Selenium::Driver.new(app, :browser => :chrome)
end

If you'd like to force-upgrade to the latest version of chromedriver, run the script chromedriver-update that also comes packaged with this gem.

This might be necessary on platforms on which Chrome auto-updates, which has been known to introduce incompatibilities with older versions of chromedriver (see Issue #3 for an example).

The code lives at http://github.com/flavorjones/chromedriver-helper. Open a Github Issue, or send a pull request! Thanks! You're the best.

(The MIT License)

Copyright (c) 2011: Mike Dalessio

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the 'Software'), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

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THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED 'AS IS', WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

The idea for this gem comes from @brianhempel's project chromedriver-gem which, despite the name, is not currently published on http://rubygems.org/.

Some improvements on the idea were taken from the installation process for standalone Phusion Passenger.