How to use socks_username method of Selenium.WebDriver Package

You have selenium-webdriver-3.0.0.beta3.1 which is only for Firefox 48 and later (and not yet properly working). Fallback to selenium-webdriver version 2.53.4 and try again.

And also try this..

• In the terminal change directory path to the directory where gem was installed
• Run gem uninstall selenium-webdriver
• Run gem install selenium-webdriver -v 2.53.4

This is how the Selenium docs () suggest:

require 'rubygems'
require 'selenium-webdriver'

driver = Selenium::WebDriver.for :firefox
driver.get "http://google.com"

element = driver.find_element :name => "q"
element.send_keys "Cheese!"
element.submit

puts "Page title is #{driver.title}"

wait = Selenium::WebDriver::Wait.new(:timeout => 10)
wait.until { driver.title.downcase.start_with? "cheese!" }

puts "Page title is #{driver.title}"
driver.quit

If that is not an option you can try the suggestion from this SO post though it would require some Javascript on top of the Ruby/Rails.

It seems that wait.until is being/has been phased out. The new suggested process it to look for the page to have an element you know will be there:

expect(page).to have_selector '#main_div_id'

You can use case to return the correct webdriver.

def Sel_drive(drive_type)
    case drive_type
    when "firefox"
        return Selenium::WebDriver.for :firefox
    when "ie"
        return Selenium::WebDriver.for :ie
    when "chrome"
        return Selenium::WebDriver.for :chrome
    else
        puts "Not a valid driver"
    end
end

driver = Sel_drive("firefox")

The ruby docs on github say you can do:

driver.switch_to.frame driver.find_element(:class, 'some-frame') # frame element

Note that I have not used the ruby bindings so I cannot tell you if this is correct.

Currently you cannot currently pass a profile via the profile option for geckodriver. This is documented in Issue #2933, and I currently have a PR (PR #3174) in for adding this functionality.

For now, you should be able to do the following:

Create the profile by either

profile = Selenium::WebDriver::Firefox::Profile.new('/path/to/profile')

or

profile = Selenium::WebDriver::Firefox::Profile.from_name('name_of_profile')

then

caps = Selenium::WebDriver::Remote::W3CCapabilities.firefox
caps[:firefox_options] = { profile: profile.as_json['zip'] }
driver = Selenium::WebDriver.for(:firefox, desired_capabilities: caps)

[:firefox_options] gets translated to moz:firefoxOptions in the code

On a side note, you could also run with the legacy FF driver instead of geckodriver since you are running against FF50

Decoding the url itself can be done via ruby URI module. The bigger challenge is to get only the right part out of the path. You could do something like this:

URI.decode(yahoo_url).match(%r{RU=(.*)/RK}).captures

This gives you a list of matched content, so in your example ["http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Something"]

But beware this regex only works if the url you want always comes after RU= and is followed by /RK.

I am pretty sure that it wouldn't happen for firefox, And I took your code and executed and it's not closing. It happens only for Chrome. If you are using Chrome, then write the following code.

caps = Selenium::WebDriver::Remote::Capabilities.chrome("goog:chromeOptions" => {detach: true})
driver = Selenium::WebDriver.for :chrome, desired_capabilities: caps

You need to download the IE driver from the downloads page, then include the path to the file (example : C:\Users\megaxelize\Desktop)i.e. the location where you have downloaded the IEdriver, in your environment path.

This is the way to update your env path vairable

Path specifies the directories in which executable programs are located on the machine that can be started without knowing and typing the whole path to the file on the command line.

More info here

Another option to use RSpec::Retry which adds a retry option for intermittently failing specs.

require 'rspec/retry'

RSpec.configure do |config|
  # show retry status in spec process
  config.verbose_retry = true
  # Try twice (retry once)
  config.default_retry_count = 2
  # Only retry when Selenium raises Net::ReadTimeout
  config.exceptions_to_retry = [Net::ReadTimeout]
end