Setting Up a Selenium-WebDriver Project

To install Selenium means to set up a project in a development so you can write a program using Selenium. How you do this depends on your programming language and your development environment.

To add Selenium to your Ruby environment run the following command from a command-line.

gem install selenium-webdriver

There are many other Selenium gems out there, but this is the official, maintained gem.

If you're looking for a slightly higher level API built on the same technology, you may want to check out capybara.

Capybara helps you test web applications by simulating how a real user would interact with your app. It is agnostic about the driver running your tests and comes with Rack::Test and Selenium support built in.