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danwhitston / browser_testing_on_wsl.md
Last active March 31, 2022 21:39
Browser testing for Ruby from within Windows Subsystem for Linux

This is a rough guide to setting up browser testing through Selenium on Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL), aka Bash on Ubuntu on Windows. It assumes the following environment:

  • Windows 10, running WSL
  • A Ruby dev environment, running inside WSL
  • Code that we want to test using a web driver, in this case Selenium, with a Capybara and RSpec test framework

The coding project folders are stored in the main Windows filing hierarchy and accessed via dev/mnt, but that makes no real difference to development and testing other than making it possible to edit the code using a GUI based editor within Windows.

The problem with browser testing in WSL is that it relies on opening and controlling a web browser, and browsers don’t work on WSL at present as it deliberately doesn’t include X Windows or some other GUI manager - it’s meant to be command line after all. So while you can apt-get firefox, trying to actually run it isn’t going to work.

@victor-perez
victor-perez / git.bat
Last active August 4, 2021 14:16
Use WSL git inside VS Code from Windows 10 17046
@echo off
setlocal ENABLEEXTENSIONS ENABLEDELAYEDEXPANSION
::this also support calls that contains a absolute windows path
::check of one of the params contain a absolute windows path
echo.%* | findstr /r /c:"[a-z]:[\\/]" > nul
if %errorlevel% == 1 (
::if not just git with the given parameters
call :git %*
@bradtraversy
bradtraversy / webdev_online_resources.md
Last active July 10, 2024 06:26
Online Resources For Web Developers (No Downloading)