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Premanandh Selvakumarasamy
Premanandh Selvakumarasamy

Reputation: 1362

Is it possible to test other applications like https://www.google.com using capybara in Rails?

I am new to write test case in Rails. Is it possible to write test cases to test other applications like https://www.google.com using capybara in Rails ?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 31

Answers (1)

gabrielhilal
gabrielhilal

Reputation: 10769

Capybara uses RackTest by default, which I believe cannot access external urls. However if you change the drive to i.e selenium you should be able to access an external url:

Capybara.current_driver = :selenium
visit 'https://www.google.com'

It can be used to web crawling.

Upvotes: 1

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