Installing Chromedriver and setting up Cucumber to run with Chrome on Linux/Ubuntu

install_chromedriver.md

Follow the below steps to install chrome webdrivers on Ubuntu

• Install Unzip

sudo apt-get install unzip

• Assuming you're running a 64-bit OS, download the latest version of chromedriver from their website

wget -N http://chromedriver.storage.googleapis.com/2.10/chromedriver_linux64.zip -P ~/Downloads unzip ~/Downloads/chromedriver_linux64.zip -d ~/Downloads

• Make the file you downloaded executable, and move it to /usr/local/share

chmod +x ~/Downloads/chromedriver
sudo mv -f ~/Downloads/chromedriver /usr/local/share/chromedriver

• Also, create symlinks to the chromedriver. Cucumber would look for the drivers in /usr/bin/chromedriver

sudo ln -s /usr/local/share/chromedriver /usr/local/bin/chromedriver
sudo ln -s /usr/local/share/chromedriver /usr/bin/chromedriver

• Finally, add/replace the below code in your features/support/env.rb

Capybara.register_driver :chrome do |app|
  # optional
  client = Selenium::WebDriver::Remote::Http::Default.new
  # optional
  client.timeout = 120
  Capybara::Selenium::Driver.new(app, :browser => :chrome, :http_client => client)
end

Capybara.javascript_driver = :chrome

And, you're good to go! Happy testing. ,,/