How do I use selenium with Ruby?

Question

I made some tests with the Firefox Selenium and then had it exported to Ruby. Although the tests all ran fine in Firefox, I am having trouble running the same suite in Ruby.

I tried to run one of the example programs they have and I also get the same connection refused error. Here is the error I got when trying to run their google_test suite.

tellingsen$ ruby google_test.rb 
Loaded suite google_test
Started
E
Finished in 0.001558 seconds.

  1) Error:
test_page_search(ExampleTest):
Errno::ECONNREFUSED: Connection refused - connect(2)
    /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:560:in `initialize'
    /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:560:in `open'
    /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:560:in `connect'
    /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/timeout.rb:62:in `timeout'
    /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/timeout.rb:93:in `timeout'
    /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:560:in `connect'
    /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:553:in `do_start'
    /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:542:in `start'
    /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:1035:in `request'
    /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:845:in `post'
    /Users/tellingsen/.gem/ruby/1.8/gems/selenium-client-1.2.18/lib/selenium/client/protocol.rb:89:in `http_post'
    /Users/tellingsen/.gem/ruby/1.8/gems/selenium-client-1.2.18/lib/selenium/client/protocol.rb:12:in `remote_control_command'
    /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/timeout.rb:62:in `timeout'
    /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/timeout.rb:93:in `timeout'
    /Users/tellingsen/.gem/ruby/1.8/gems/selenium-client-1.2.18/lib/selenium/client/protocol.rb:11:in `remote_control_command'
    /Users/tellingsen/.gem/ruby/1.8/gems/selenium-client-1.2.18/lib/selenium/client/protocol.rb:19:in `string_command'
    /Users/tellingsen/.gem/ruby/1.8/gems/selenium-client-1.2.18/lib/selenium/client/base.rb:85:in `start_new_browser_session'
    google_test.rb:21:in `setup'

1 tests, 0 assertions, 0 failures, 1 errors

Can someone help me with this?

Note:

• Mac OS: 10.6.4
• Macbook Pro
• Ruby: 1.8.7
• gem: selenium-client 1.2.18

EDIT Here is the google_test.rb that I tried

#!/usr/bin/env ruby
#
# Sample Test:Unit based test case using the selenium-client API
#
require "test/unit"
require "rubygems"
gem "selenium-client", ">=1.2.18"
require "selenium/client"

class ExampleTest < Test::Unit::TestCase
    attr_reader :browser

  def setup
    @browser = Selenium::Client::Driver.new \
        :host => "localhost", 
        :port => 4444, 
        :browser => "*firefox", 
        :url => "http://www.google.com", 
        :timeout_in_second => 60

    browser.start_new_browser_session
  end

  def teardown
    browser.close_current_browser_session
  end

  def test_page_search
        browser.open "/"
        assert_equal "Google", browser.title
        browser.type "q", "Selenium seleniumhq"
        browser.click "btnG", :wait_for => :page
        assert_equal "Selenium seleniumhq - Google Search", browser.title
        assert_equal "Selenium seleniumhq", browser.field("q")
        assert browser.text?("seleniumhq.org")
        assert browser.element?("link=Cached")
  end

end

Answer 1

I figured it out after a few hours of searching on forums and through google.

What I needed to do was have the selenium server running for it to work. I was able to download it from this site http://seleniumhq.org/download/ (current: Selenium RC February 23, 2010 1.0.3).

From there I opened up a new terminal and did

cd Downloads/selenium-remote-control-1.0.3/selenium-server-1.0.3
java -jar selenium-server.jar

Then ran my ruby generated script with another terminal window

ruby google_test.rb

And it worked!