# How to use Selenium from Rails

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**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [February 16, 2006, 3:37pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-use-selenium-from-rails/53905 "2006-02-16T15:37:08Z")\
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I caught two different approaches to integrate Selenium to Rails:

[http://svn.viney.net.nz/things/rails/plugins/selenium\_testing/README](http://svn.viney.net.nz/things/rails/plugins/selenium_testing/README)

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It seems that the first makes it easy to right the tests, and the second  
makes it easy to run them. Am I correct?

Any chance of the two hooking up and cross polinating?

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**Post date:** [February 16, 2006, 4:42pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-use-selenium-from-rails/53905/2 "2006-02-16T16:42:51Z")

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List R. wrote:

> I caught two different approaches to integrate Selenium to Rails:  
> [http://svn.viney.net.nz/things/rails/plugins/selenium\_testing/README](http://svn.viney.net.nz/things/rails/plugins/selenium_testing/README)  
> [SEO & Sökmotoroptimering - Så fungerar det - And then nothing](http://andthennothing.net/archives/2006/02/05/selenium-on-rails)
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> It seems that the first makes it easy to right the tests, and the second  
> makes it easy to run them. Am I correct?

You can use Selenium IDE[1] to write tests for Selenium on Rails, and I  
think that’s the best option. However, I will probably add pure Ruby  
test cases as well and will look at the other solutions out there, like  
Jonathan’s that you mention and Erik’s patch[2].

/Jonas

[1] [SEO & Sökmotoroptimering - Så fungerar det - And then nothing](http://andthennothing.net/archives/2006/02/08/selenium-ide)  
[2]  
[Selenium on Rails, Reloaded: Client-Side Tests in Ruby | Random Hacks](http://www.randomhacks.net/articles/2006/02/15/selenium-on-rails-reloaded)

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**Post date:** [February 17, 2006, 12:07am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-use-selenium-from-rails/53905/3 "2006-02-17T00:07:02Z")

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It would be great to see some work on combining my approach with  
selenium-on-rails. I think it would be possible to have the best of both  
worlds, but it may require a bit of creative thinking :).

-Jonathan.

> You can use Selenium IDE[1] to write tests for Selenium on Rails, and I  
> think that’s the best option. However, I will probably add pure Ruby  
> test cases as well and will look at the other solutions out there, like  
> Jonathan’s that you mention and Erik’s patch[2].
> 
> /Jonas

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**Post date:** [February 17, 2006, 6:57am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-use-selenium-from-rails/53905/4 "2006-02-17T06:57:08Z")

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I’ve done some more work on this today, so you should be seeing a new  
version of the plugin out pretty soon which tries to get the best of  
both worlds.

-Jonny.

Jonathan V. wrote:

> It would be great to see some work on combining my approach with  
> selenium-on-rails. I think it would be possible to have the best of both  
> worlds, but it may require a bit of creative thinking :).
> 
> -Jonathan.
> 
> > You can use Selenium IDE[1] to write tests for Selenium on Rails, and I  
> > think that’s the best option. However, I will probably add pure Ruby  
> > test cases as well and will look at the other solutions out there, like  
> > Jonathan’s that you mention and Erik’s patch[2].
> > 
> > /Jonas