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Fianite
Fianite

Reputation: 339

Trouble with Selenium and ChromeDriver

I'm trying to get Selenium working, but I can't seem to figure it out. I've installed the proper Ruby gem, and am trying to execute this code.

require "selenium-webdriver"

driver = Selenium::WebDriver.for :chrome
driver.navigate.to "http://google.com"

element = driver.find_element(:name, 'q')
element.send_keys "Hello WebDriver!"
element.submit

puts driver.title

driver.quit

I'm fairly certain my issue is that I haven't connected the ChromeDriver correctly. How do I link Chrome driver in order to get this to work? It says I need to place it on my PATH. Can someone explain this?

Here is what I downloaded.

Also, here is the error I'm getting:

in `executable_path': Unable to find the chromedriver executable.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 2383

Answers (3)

Satish Gupta
Satish Gupta

Reputation: 1467

Unable to find the chromedriver executable : We get this when system is not able to locate chromedriver. We can help system find it by setting environment variable "webdriver.chrome.driver" If you are running unix/linux use export webdriver.chrome.driver=<path_where_binary_is_present> If running on windows : Go to System Advanced Environment Variables. Add an entry with name webdriver.chrome.driver and value set to path of binary

We can also set this location from program also. Like in java System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", ""

Do any one of this and this error should go away

Upvotes: 0

Mesut GUNES
Mesut GUNES

Reputation: 7421

Place chrome driver depends on your operating system, check this link:

OS    Expected Location of Chrome
Linux /usr/bin/google-chrome1
Mac   /Applications/Google\ Chrome.app/Contents/MacOS/Google\ Chrome
Windows XP    %HOMEPATH%\Local Settings\Application Data\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe
Windows Vista C:\Users\%USERNAME%\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe

Upvotes: 0

Saurabh Gaur
Saurabh Gaur

Reputation: 23835

There is a Selenium::WebDriver::Chrome.driver_path= method that allows specifying of the chromedriver executable:

# Specify the driver path
Selenium::WebDriver::Chrome.driver_path = "path/to/chromedriver.exe"

# now instantiate chrome driver 
driver = Selenium::WebDriver.for :chrome
driver.navigate.to "http://google.com"

element = driver.find_element(:name, 'q')
element.send_keys "Hello WebDriver!"
element.submit

puts driver.title

driver.quit

Upvotes: 4

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