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 (2.53.0) packages Selenium Standalone Server 2.53.0 - http://selenium-release.storage.googleapis.com/2.53/selenium-server-standalone-2.53.0.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
Selenium Project on Google Code
Copyright (c) 2010-2011 Pivotal Labs. This software is licensed under the MIT License.