Selenium Rake tasks. Configure Selenium .jar file location as well as logfile name and location.

example_jar_file_and_logfile_locations.rake

SELENIUM_JAR_FILE_PATH = 'c:/toolchain/selenium-server-1.0-beta-2/selenium-server.jar'

SELENIUM_SERVER_LOG_PATH = "log/selenium-server_#{Time.now.strftime "%C%y_%m_%d_%H%M%S"}.log"

VANILLA_SELENIUM_SERVER_LOG_PATH = "log/vanilla_selenium-server_#{Time.now.strftime "%C%y_%m_%d_%H%M%S"}.log"

Rakefile

# selenium:rc:start
Selenium::Rake::RemoteControlStartTask.new do |rc|
  rc.port = 4444
  rc.timeout_in_seconds = 2 * 60
  rc.background = true
  rc.wait_until_up_and_running = true
  rc.jar_file = SELENIUM_JAR_FILE_PATH
  rc.log_to = SELENIUM_SERVER_LOG_PATH
  rc.additional_args << "-proxyInjectionMode"
  rc.additional_args << "-trustAllSSLCertificates"
  rc.additional_args << "-avoidProxy"
end

Selenium::Rake::RemoteControlStartTask.new("selenium:rc:vanilla") do |rc|
  rc.port = 4444
  rc.timeout_in_seconds = 2 * 60
  rc.background = true
  rc.wait_until_up_and_running = true
  rc.jar_file = SELENIUM_JAR_FILE_PATH
  rc.log_to = VANILLA_SELENIUM_SERVER_LOG_PATH
end

Selenium::Rake::RemoteControlStopTask.new("rc:stop") do |rc|
  rc.host = "localhost"
  rc.port = 4444
  rc.timeout_in_seconds = 3 * 60
end