Can I automate Chrome request blocking using Selenium-webdriver for Ruby?

Question

I am a QA automation analyst responsible for testing a multi-platform online banking application. For our automation testing we use RubyMine suite with Gherkin/Cucumber, Rub

Answer 1

To block URLs from loading with Selenium with the DevTool API:

def send_cmd(driver, cmd, params={})
  bridge = driver.send(:bridge)
  resource = "session/#{bridge.session_id}/chromium/send_command_and_get_result"
  response = bridge.http.call(:post, resource, {'cmd':cmd, 'params': params})
  raise response[:value] if response[:status]
  return response[:value]
end

send_cmd(driver, "Network.setBlockedURLs", {'urls': ["*"]})
send_cmd(driver, "Network.enable")