# Selenium IDE or Selenium on Rails? Is there a BIG difference?

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/selenium-ide-or-selenium-on-rails-is-there-a-big-difference/147651>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [September 4, 2008, 12:23am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/selenium-ide-or-selenium-on-rails-is-there-a-big-difference/147651 "2008-09-04T00:23:02Z")\
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**Author:** ![paco.onrails](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/fbc32d/32.png) [@paco.onrails](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/paco.onrails)\
**Post date:** [September 4, 2008, 12:23am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/selenium-ide-or-selenium-on-rails-is-there-a-big-difference/147651/1 "2008-09-04T00:23:02Z")

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Hello again.

What I don’t finish to understand is what is the big difference  
between cases/suites that I can create and run in Selenium IDE and  
cases/suites that i can create and run using Selenium on Rails.

Seeing Railscasts Episode 116 ([#116 Selenium - RailsCasts](http://railscasts.com/episodes/116-)  
selenium) they say the if you want to create “something more real  
specific” you will move to Selenium on Rails (which doesn’t work with  
RoR 2.1 so far???).

But what are those “real specific” situations?  
More AJAX?

Thanks for your answers.

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**Author:** ![paco.onrails](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/fbc32d/32.png) [@paco.onrails](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/paco.onrails)\
**Post date:** [September 4, 2008, 2:11pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/selenium-ide-or-selenium-on-rails-is-there-a-big-difference/147651/2 "2008-09-04T14:11:11Z")

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I think [GitHub - ryanb/selenium-on-rails: This repo is no longer maintained, see the official repository by paytonrules.](http://github.com/ryanb/selenium-on-rails/tree/master) actually  
does work in Rails 2.1