Watir unable to find Mozilla geckodriver

Question

I am using Watir to crawl something, but it throw

Unable to find Mozilla geckodriver. Please download the server from https://github.com/mozilla/geckodriver/releases and place it

I've done following step.

Downloading the latest firefox (version50.0)

I download the latest version of geckodriver from https://github.com/mozilla/geckodriver/releases, and put it in ~/geckodriver

Then add export PATH=$PATH:~/geckodriver into ~/.bash_profile and source it.

Here is code I executed

require 'watir-webdriver'
browser = Watir::Browser.new :firefox # should open a new Firefox window
browser.goto 'http://nitrowriters.com/form/form.html' # or type the local path to your downloaded copy

Gemfile

source "https://rubygems.org"
gem  'nokogiri'
gem  'watir-webdriver'
gem  'open_uri_redirections'
gem  'selenium-webdriver'
gem  "watir", ">= 6.0.0.beta2"

Environment: OSX 10.10

Answer 1

I had the same problem on Linux Mint 17.2. I solved it by moving the geckodriver file from the extracted tar to usr/bin (you have to have root permission to do that).

For some reason zsh would not find it if I defined it in my path variable. Maybe someone else has a better solution, but for now this works.