# Selenium docs or tutorial?

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**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [July 17, 2008, 8:09pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/selenium-docs-or-tutorial/143371 "2008-07-17T20:09:50Z")\
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**Post date:** [July 17, 2008, 8:09pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/selenium-docs-or-tutorial/143371/1 "2008-07-17T20:09:50Z")

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Does anyone have links to any complete Selenium docs or tutorial?  
I have Selenium 1.0.9 installed (OS X, Leopard), the proxy server  
appears to launch ok, and got the test to reach:

@browser = Selenium::SeleniumDriver.new(“localhost”, 4444,  
“\*firefox”, “[http://www.google.com](http://www.google.com)”, 15000)

this method has no documentation as far as I can tell (or comments in  
the source).  
I got it to launch firefox (which has Selenium IDE), but then it just  
hangs.

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**Post date:** [July 17, 2008, 8:34pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/selenium-docs-or-tutorial/143371/2 "2008-07-17T20:34:45Z")

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Have you checked out the Railscasts Selenium episode?

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**Post date:** [July 17, 2008, 9:00pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/selenium-docs-or-tutorial/143371/3 "2008-07-17T21:00:58Z")

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shenry wrote:

> Have you checked out the Railscasts Selenium episode?

I did, thanks for the reference - that’s for selenium on rails, which is  
a plugin (I have to admit I am a bit lost on which gem or plugin or ? is  
the preferred style these days for selenium). This plugin does not use  
selenium rc…the cast shows primary how to record a simple linear test  
from Firefox.  
My problem is that I need a programatic setup that launches multiple  
browers (scalability test) and manipulates each in turn.