Trying to get selenium working in rails 3 - “WebMock::NetConnectNotAllowedError”

Question

I\'m trying to use selenium for the first time in a rails 3 app. (I\'ve used it before with rails 2). I\'m in an rvm which of course has its own gemset.

I first r

Answer 1

We use this to enable normal requests in capybara, and allow selenium's callbacks everywhere, because they are fired after requests are finished.

# spec/spec_helper.rb
RSpec.configure do |config|
  config.before(:all, type: :request) do
    WebMock.allow_net_connect!
  end  

  config.after(:all, type: :request) do
    selenium_requests = %r{/((__.+__)|(hub/session.*))$}
    WebMock.disable_net_connect! :allow => selenium_requests
  end
end