{"id":307,"date":"2009-10-07T17:24:59","date_gmt":"2009-10-07T16:24:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.setfiremedia.com\/blog\/?p=307"},"modified":"2009-10-07T17:55:09","modified_gmt":"2009-10-07T16:55:09","slug":"running-cucumber-tasks-through-selenium-on-internet-explorer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.setfiremedia.com\/blog\/running-cucumber-tasks-through-selenium-on-internet-explorer","title":{"rendered":"Running Cucumber Tasks Through Selenium on Internet Explorer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We all need to test our code on Internet Explorer and when set up correctly, this can be the best way.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not going to go over installing Ruby, MySQL (you need version 5.0), Apache etc as there are a million and one tutorials out there. I will mention however that you can save yourself some time by simply connecting to your development server (remember, you will need to open up your SQL server for remote access). I&#8217;m also not going to go over setting up selenium profiles as I&#8217;m assuming you&#8217;ve already got your tests running under a *nix environment.<\/p>\n<p>Now once you&#8217;ve got your applications installed and checked out a copy of your code you need to make sure you have the right gems &#8211; exactly the same set as you needed on your development server, although I would also recommend win32console as it will give you the text colouring on your test output (and also randomly remove all of the letter As. No, really!).<\/p>\n<p>Now comes the fun part. There are a series of hacks you need to do to Ruby and its gems to get them working under Windows:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Install MySQL 5.0 if you haven&#8217;t already and copy libmySQL.dll from the MySQL bin folder to the Ruby bin folder, overwriting the default version.<\/li>\n<li>Change any reference to IP &#8216;0.0.0.0&#8217; to &#8216;127.0.0.1&#8217; in the webrat gem. This is needed because Windows will not view &#8216;0.0.0.0&#8217; as localhost.<\/li>\n<li>Add &#8216;start&#8217; before the &#8216;mongrel_rails&#8217; command in the &#8216;start_command&#8217; function in &#8216;\\selenium\\application_servers\\rails.rb&#8217;. This will cause the mongrel server to be run in a new console window which is needed because the mongrel *nix detach flag does not work in a Windows console.<\/li>\n<li>Add &#8216;-interactive -forcedBrowserMode iexplore&#8217; to the start command in &#8216;\\lib\\selenium\\remote_control\\remote_control.rb&#8217;.<\/li>\n<li>Increase your timeouts\n<ul>\n<li>Add &#8216;config.selenium_browser_startup_timeout = 50&#8217; to your selenium profile.<\/li>\n<li>Timeouts also defined in &#8216;\\selenium\\selenium_rc_server.rb<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Make sure you have your browser set correctly in your selenium profile with the correct path. Something along the lines of:\n<ul>\n<li>config.selenium_browser_key = &#8216;*iexplore C:\\Program files\\Internet Explorer\\ie.exe&#8217;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Then run your tests and you should find your tests running quite happily.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We all need to test our code on Internet Explorer and when set up correctly, this can be the best way. I&#8217;m not going to go over installing Ruby, MySQL (you need version 5.0), Apache etc as there are a million and one tutorials out there. I will mention however that you can save yourself [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9,32],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.setfiremedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.setfiremedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.setfiremedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.setfiremedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.setfiremedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=307"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.setfiremedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":332,"href":"https:\/\/www.setfiremedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307\/revisions\/332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.setfiremedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.setfiremedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.setfiremedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}