Cucumber; Selenium WebDriver - how to use Google Chrome as the testing browser instead of Firefox

Question

For a Cucumber scenario on my Rails 3.1 app, I used the @javascript tag, so Selenium is activated. I get the following error:

Could not find Firefox binary (         


        

Answer 1

For capybara, add this to env.rb

Capybara.register_driver :selenium do |app|
  Capybara::Selenium::Driver.new(app, :browser => :chrome)
end

Download the Chrome driver executable and copy it in you path, e.g. /usr/bin/ and make it executable

$ sudo chmod +x /usr/bin/chromedriver