Headless Testing for Continuous Integration with Ruby and Selenium

gistfile1.bash

# Install and run xvfb
apt-get install xvfb
Xvfb -ac :99

# Get Firefox
wget -O firefox-5.0.tar.bz2 "http://download.mozilla.org/?product=firefox-5.0&os=linux&lang=en-US"
tar xfj firefox-5.0.tar.bz2
mv firefox firefox-5.0

# Get Selenium Server
wget http://selenium.googlecode.com/files/selenium-server-standalone-2.0rc3.jar

# Start Selenium Server
DISPLAY=:99 java -jar selenium-server-standalone-2.0rc3.jar -Dwebdriver.firefox.bin=<firefox path>/firefox-5.0/firefox-bin

# Install gem
gem install selenium-webdriver

# Test it
irb
require "selenium-webdriver"
driver = Selenium::WebDriver.for(:remote)
driver.navigate.to "http://google.com"
driver.title