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Setting up WebDriver - Selenium Tutorial
From the course: Learning Selenium
Setting up WebDriver
- [Instructor] Before writing tests, there are two tools that I need to install. Those tools are Selenium WebDriver as the framework and geckodriver as the browser driver to run tests in Firefox. To get started, I'll go the Selenium website at selenium.dev/downloads. And once there, I'm going to scroll down and look for the Selenium client and webdriver language bindings. I want to select to install the language bindings for Ruby. So once I get to the Ruby row, I'm going to go and select Download. This takes me to the Selenium WebDriver Ruby gems page. Just a note on gems in Ruby. Gems are independent software packages. You can think of it as a library or plugin. RubyGems is the package management framework. Each gem needs to be installed before using it. Gems can either be installed via gem install or via the bundler. Gem install is a command that comes built in with the RubyGems library and is included in Ruby by…
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