main enter point for my Selenium-Rspec automation framework

main.rb

require 'yaml'
require 'rspec'
require 'rspec/expectations'
require 'selenium-webdriver'

# ruby main.rb "Camps AUI BVT 1" "firefox" "INT" "9527"

# handle the arguments.
$plan_name=ARGV.shift.dup
$round_id= ARGV.shift.dup
$browser=ARGV.shift.dup
$env=ARGV.shift.dup
$as_debug_flag = false
if $plan_name.nil? or $browser.nil? or $env.nil? or $round_id.nil?
  puts "$plan_name,$browser,$env can't be empty."
  puts 'Eg1: ruby main.rb "Camps AUI BVT 1" "9527" "firefox" "LOCAL"  -debug'
  puts 'Eg2: ruby main.rb "Camps AUI BVT 1" "9527" "ie" "LOCAL"'
  exit(1)
end
if ARGV.include?('-debug') then
  ARGV.delete '-debug'
  ARGV.push '-fd'
$as_debug_flag = true
else
  result_path = $plan_name + Time.now.strftime("%Y%m%d-%H-%M-%S")
  ARGV.push '-fh'
  ARGV.push '-o'
  ARGV.push "../output/test_results/#{result_path}.htm"
  puts "You can find test result in: ../output/test_results/#{result_path}.htm"
end

Dir.mkdir "#{File.dirname(__FILE__)}/../output" if not File.exist? "#{File.dirname(__FILE__)}/../output"
path = File.join(File.dirname(__FILE__),"..","output","screenshots")
Dir.mkdir path if not File.exist? path
path = File.join(File.dirname(__FILE__),"..","output","test_results")
Dir.mkdir path if not File.exist? path

#load all the common functions
Dir[File.dirname(__FILE__) + '/../common/*.rb'].each do |file|
  require file if file!="./"<<__FILE__
end

#load all the libraries under ../libs
Dir.glob("#{File.dirname(__FILE__)}/../libs/*/**/*.rb").each do |f|
  require f
end

#get the paramaters from config.yml for each test plan into $paremeters
$paremeters=YAML.load(File.open("#{File.dirname(__FILE__)}/#{$plan_name}/config.yml"))

#get project/marquee config from ../common/config.yml
CONFIG=YAML.load(File.open("#{File.dirname(__FILE__)}/../common/config.yml"))
$url_string = "#{CONFIG["marquee_server"]}status/update"

#init the parameters used for marquee
$errormessage=""
$result="Passed"
$errormessage=""
$screenshot=""
$error_log=""

#$service=MARQUEE::get_service_info("#{CONFIG['service_info']}",$env)
$service="FndWebServerCamps##Debug"
#$sqlserver_env_util = SqlserverUtil.new $env

if $browser.nil? || $env.nil?
  puts "ERROR------------- browser or env should not be nil."
  puts "browser: #{$browser}"
  puts "environment: #{$env}"
  exit 1
else
  puts "begin running with the configuration..."
  puts "browser: #{$browser}"
  puts "environment: #{$env}"
  puts "marquee round_id: #{$round_id}"
  puts "marquee url: #{$url_string}"
  puts "plan name: #{$plan_name}"
end

describe $plan_name  do
  before(:all){
    $service = MARQUEE::get_service_info('FndWebserverCamps##CampsSessionManagementService##FndWebserverCui',$env)
    puts $service
    Common::start_browser
  }
  after(:all){
    MARQUEE::update_script_state $round_id,$plan_name,"End",$service
    $driver.quit
  }
  before(:each){$errormessage= ""}
  after(:each){
    example.result!
  }
  Dir[File.dirname(__FILE__) + "/#{$plan_name}/*.rb"].each {|file| require file}
  $paremeters['actions'].split(',').each {|m| send m.to_sym}
end

require 'rspec/autorun'