Error with selenium webdriver code( geckodriver)

Question

I am trying to run my first webdriver script in eclipse. using jre1.8.0_1111. I used the following code but it shows error.please help me with the code.

 import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
 import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver;  

 public class Trial { 
    static void main(String[] args) { 
    WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver(); 
    String baseUrl = "google.com";    
    System.setProperty("webdriver.gecko.driver", "C:\\Users\\Naik\\Downloads\\geckodriver-v0.11.1-win64\\geck‌​odriver.exe"); 
    driver.get(baseUrl); 
   }

Error stack

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.IllegalStateException: The path to the driver executable must be set by the webdriver.gecko.driver system property; for more information, see github.com/mozilla/geckodriver. The latest version can be downloaded from github.com/mozilla/geckodriver/releases

Answer 1

Download the geckodriver from the below URL and save it on your local machine.

https://github.com/mozilla/geckodriver/releases

Then set the right path where the geckodriver.exe is saved.Moreover the set property must be used before declaring the driver!

 public class Trial { 
  public static void main(String[] args) {
    String baseUrl = "google.com";
    System.setProperty("webdriver.gecko.driver", "C:\\Users\\Naik\\Downloads\\geckodriver-v0.11.1-win64\\geck‌​odriver.exe"); 
    WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver(); 
    driver.get(baseUrl); 
  }