# \[ANN\] New version of Selenium on Rails

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ann-new-version-of-selenium-on-rails/70429>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [February 19, 2006, 3:10pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ann-new-version-of-selenium-on-rails/70429 "2006-02-19T15:10:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![jonas](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/aeb1de/32.png) [@jonas](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jonas)\
**Post date:** [February 19, 2006, 3:10pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ann-new-version-of-selenium-on-rails/70429/1 "2006-02-19T15:10:48Z")

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I’ve just released a new version of Selenium on Rails[1]. It’s a plugin  
that makes it easy to test Rails applications through browsers using  
Selenium [2].

The major new features are exprimental support for running all tests  
through a Rake task (which launches any number of browsers) and a new  
format RSelenese.

The Rake task has a few rough edges so I would appreciate if people  
could try it out and let me know if anything doesn’t work. It currently  
only support Windows, but ought to be easy to port to Linux/Mac OS X.

RSelenese is a format, contributed by Eric Kidd[3], which makes it  
possible to write the tests in Ruby, like this:

setup :fixtures =\> :all  
open ‘/’  
assert\_title ‘Home’  
(‘a’…‘z’).each {|c| open :controller =\> ‘user’, :action =\> ‘create’,  
:name =\> c }

Another change is that the plugin is only available in test environment,  
but it’s configurable.

script/plugin update (or reinstall the plugin if that doesnâ??t work)

Check it out and let me know what you think!

/Jonas

[1]

> **[SEO & Sökmotoroptimering - Så fungerar det - And then nothing](https://andthennothing.net)**
>
> SEO, eller sökmotoroptimering, är avgörande för alla företag som vill nå ut till kunder online. Men den överflödiga informationen kan göra att det verkar vara ett mycket komplicerat område, fullt av olika tekniker och idéer. För att göra det enklare...

[2] [http://www.openqa.org/selenium/](http://www.openqa.org/selenium/)  
[3] [http://www.randomhacks.net/](http://www.randomhacks.net/)

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**Author:** ![jonas](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/aeb1de/32.png) [@jonas](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jonas)\
**Post date:** [February 20, 2006, 8:58pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ann-new-version-of-selenium-on-rails/70429/2 "2006-02-20T20:58:34Z")

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Jonas Bengtsson wrote:

> I’ve just released a new version of Selenium on Rails.

And now I’ve created a screencast to show most of the interesting  
features: [SEO & Sökmotoroptimering - Så fungerar det - And then nothing](http://andthennothing.net/archives/2006/02/20/show-dont-tell)

/Jonas

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**Author:** ![jonas](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/aeb1de/32.png) [@jonas](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jonas)\
**Post date:** [February 20, 2006, 9:32pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ann-new-version-of-selenium-on-rails/70429/3 "2006-02-20T21:32:38Z")

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- Jonas Bengtsson (removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid) [060220 15:00]:

> Jonas Bengtsson wrote:
> 
> > I’ve just released a new version of Selenium on Rails.
> 
> And now I’ve created a screencast to show most of the interesting  
> features: [SEO & Sökmotoroptimering - Så fungerar det - And then nothing](http://andthennothing.net/archives/2006/02/20/show-dont-tell)

Great work!

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