selenium 2 chrome driver

Question

So I have read all the docs on adding chromedriver to my path and followed all of them. I am on a Mac with selenium2, maven, eclipse, and all the latest drivers:

Error:
The path to the chromedriver executable must be set by the webdriver.chrome.driver system property;

I put chromedriver in my Applications folder and my path looks like:

echo $PATH  
/Users/tcerrato/selenium/BS_Sel_Project/auto_helper/test_scripts:/usr/local/apache-maven-2.2.1//bin:/Users/oracle/oracle/product/10.2.0/db_1/bin:/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:/Applications:

What am I missing? I cannot run with chrome driver at all. Any help would be great I'm trying random stuff now.

Here is my pom section on selenium:

<dependency>
    <groupId>org.seleniumhq.selenium</groupId>
    <artifactId>selenium</artifactId>
    <version>2.0rc2</version>
    <type>pom</type>
</dependency>
<dependency>
    <groupId>org.seleniumhq.selenium</groupId>
    <artifactId>selenium-chrome-driver</artifactId>
    <version>2.5.0</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
    <groupId>org.seleniumhq.selenium</groupId>
    <artifactId>selenium-firefox-driver</artifactId>
    <version>2.6.0</version>
</dependency>

Answer 1

I am not sure about Maven but this how I set the property webdriver.chrome.driver

System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", "C:\\pathto\\my\\chromedriver.exe");
WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver();
driver.get("http://www.google.com");

Answer 2

Add WebDriverManager to your project:

<dependency>
   <groupId>io.github.bonigarcia</groupId>
   <artifactId>webdrivermanager</artifactId>
    <version>5.1.0</version>
</dependency>

This library downloads the latest version of the WebDriver binary you need and export the proper Java system variable (webdriver.chrome.driver, webdriver.gecko.driver, webdriver.opera.driver, webdriver.edge.driver, webdriver.ie.driver), simply using one of the following sentences respectively:

WebDriverManager.chromedriver().setup();
WebDriverManager.firefoxdriver().setup();
WebDriverManager.operadriver().setup();
WebDriverManager.edgedriver().setup();
WebDriverManager.iedriver().setup();

More info on https://bonigarcia.dev/webdrivermanager/