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

Today the easiest way to get the chromedriver executable seem to be installing the chromedriver-helper gem. Please see https://github.com/flavorjones/chromedriver-helper for details.

Besides installing the gem you'll have to configure your environment the same way as already mentioned in several other answers:

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