#116 Selenium

Jun 30, 2008 | 9 minutes | Testing, Tools

Selenium is a great way to test your app automatically through a browser. See how it works in this episode.

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          bash
        
script/plugin install git://github.com/ryanb/selenium-on-rails.git
script/generate selenium destroy_product.rsel
rake test:acceptance

          test/selenium/destroy_product.rsel
        
setup :fixtures => :all
product = Product.first
open '/'
click "css=#product_#{product.id} a:contains('Destroy')"
assert_confirmation('*')
wait_for_element_present "css=#flash_notice"
assert_element_not_present "css=#product_#{product.id}"
refresh
assert_element_not_present "css=#product_#{product.id}"

          config/selenium.yml
        
environments:
  - test

browsers:
  firefox: '/Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/firefox-bin'
  safari: '/Applications/Safari.app/Contents/MacOS/Safari'

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