Selenium-Ruby Installations in Linux

In relation to my previous post on Selenium and Ruby setup in Windows, here’s an installation guide for Linux peeps:

1. Install JRE

- In your terminal type: sudo apt-get install sun-java6-jre

- To verify type: java -version

Note: Java version should be 1.5 or higher versions

2. Install Ruby

- In your terminal, type: sudo apt-get install ruby

- To verify type: ruby –version

Note: ruby 1.8.7 works with rspec version <= 1.3.1

3. Install Rubygems

- From the terminal, type: sudo apt-get install rubygems OR you can follow this tutorial Installing RubyGems

- To verify type:  gem –version

4. Install other useful gems

• Rake ( to create a task that runs set of tests )

- Type: sudo gem install rake

- To verify type:  rake –version

• Selenium-client ( API to drive Selenium tests from Ruby )

- Type: sudo gem install selenium-client -v 1.2.18

- To verify type: gem list selenium-client

Note: selenium-client 1.2.18 works with rspec version 1.2.8

• Rspec ( to define executable examples of the expected behaviour of your code )

- Type: sudo gem install rspec -v 1.2.8

- To verify type: spec –version

• Faker ( to easily generate fake data: names, addresses, phone numbers, etc. )

- Type: sudo gem install faker

- To verify type: gem list faker

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