Capybara Setup for selenium with headless chrome

capybara.rb

require 'capybara/rails'
require 'capybara/rspec'
require 'selenium/webdriver'


Capybara.register_driver :selenium do |app|
  Capybara::Selenium::Driver.new(app, browser: :chrome, args: ['--window-size=1280,1024'])
end

Capybara.register_driver :headless_chrome do |app|
  capabilities = Selenium::WebDriver::Remote::Capabilities.chrome(
    chromeOptions: { args: %w(headless disable-gpu no-sandbox --window-size=1280,1024) }
  )

  Capybara::Selenium::Driver.new(
    app,
    browser: :chrome,
    desired_capabilities: capabilities
  )
end

Capybara.javascript_driver = :headless_chrome

Selenium_with_headless_chrome.md

Setup for Capybara selenium with headless chrome

This gist contains all you need to setup capybara for selenium with headless chrome.

1. Add these gems to the Gemfile under test group

  gem 'capybara'
  gem 'chromedriver-helper
  gem 'selenium-webdriver'

2. Copy the capybara.rb file into spec/support.

Make sure you have enabled this line in your rails_helper.rb

Dir[Rails.root.join('spec/support/**/*.rb')].each { |f| require f }

That's it.