Selenium::Chrome::Mavericks

UPDATE: This gem is no longer necessary as of Chromedriver 2.6. Please use the regular selenium-webdriver gem.

I made this gem because selenium-webdriver, from capybara anyway, won't honor my passing of the argument "--verbose", which is the workaround to getting chromedriver working on Mavericks.

In addition, the latest chromedriver release (2.5) does not fix the bug that necessitated the --verbose workaround. I'm fed up and want to be able to run Cucumber on my Mavericks computer, so here's a gem that monkeypatches the selenium-webdriver 2.37.0

This gem depends on selenium-webdriver and is locked at that version -- as such you may replace that gem with this gem. This gem will never be updated unless, for some strange reason, things get worse... so consider it a temporary / throwaway.

Track the bug on selenium's bug tracker: https://code.google.com/p/chromedriver/issues/detail?id=599

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'selenium-chrome-mavericks'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install selenium-chrome-mavericks

Somewhere before you begin using selenium-webdriver, add this code:

require 'selenium/chrome/mavericks'

For example, at the top of your env.rb, if using Cucumber.

It has now patched the correct initializer and will pass --verbose to the child process, which for some reason makes chromedriver work right on Mavericks...

Enjoy.

1. Fork it
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create new Pull Request