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geckodriver-helper

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Easy installation and use of geckodriver, that provides the HTTP API described by the WebDriver protocol to communicate with Gecko browsers, such as Firefox.

Description

geckodriver-helper installs an executable, geckodriver, in your gem path.

This script will, if necessary, download the appropriate binary for your platform and install it into ~/.geckodriver-helper, then exec it.

Usage

If you're using Bundler and Capybara, it's as easy as:

# Gemfile
gem 'geckodriver-helper'

then, in your specs:

Capybara.register_driver :selenium do |app|
  Capybara::Selenium::Driver.new(app, :browser => :firefox)
end

Updating Geckodriver

If you'd like to force-upgrade to the latest version of geckodriver, run the script gecko_updater

License

MIT licensed, see LICENSE.txt for full details.

Credit

The idea and some features comes from @flavorjones's project chromedriver-helper. That saves setup time and works pretty good from the box.

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