Running Cucumber with celerity and watir-webdriver. No need for Selenium Server for headless

browser.rb

# Just returns the appropriate browser class to instantiate
case RUBY_PLATFORM
  when /java/
    if ENV['BROWSER'] =~ /true/
      require "watir-webdriver"
      Browser = Watir::Browser
      WEBDRIVER = true
      puts "Running in a Browser"
      if ENV['CHROMEWATIR']
        BROWSER_TYPE = :chrome
        puts "Using Chrome"
      elsif ENV['FIREWATIR']
        BROWSER_TYPE =  :firefox
        puts "Using Firefox"
        if ENV['FIREWATIRPATH']
          # Custom Firefox Path, handy if you don't install in default locations
          # or if you want to test with multiple Firefoxes
          Selenium::WebDriver::Firefox.path = ENV['FIREWATIRPATH']
          puts "at #{ENV['FIREWATIRPATH']}"
        end
      else # ENV['WATIR']
        BROWSER_TYPE = :ie
        puts "Using IE"
      end
    else
      require 'celerity'
      Browser = Celerity::Browser
      Celerity.index_offset = 0
      WEBDRIVER = false
      puts "Running Headless"
    end
  else
    raise "This platform is not supported (#{PLATFORM})"
end

Gemfile

source "http://rubygems.org"
gem "cucumber", "0.10.0"
gem "gherkin", "2.3.3"
gem "watir-webdriver", "0.2.0"
gem "rake"
gem "rspec"

platforms :jruby do
  gem "celerity", "0.8.7"
  gem "syntax"
end

hooks.rb

Before do
  case RUBY_PLATFORM
    when /java/
      if WEBDRIVER
        @browser = Browser.new BROWSER_TYPE
      else
        @browser = Browser.new
        @browser.webclient.setUseInsecureSSL(true)
      end
    else
      raise "This platform is not supported (#{PLATFORM})"
  end
  @base_url = RegionBaseURL
end

After do
  @browser.close
end

Rakefile

require 'rubygems'
require 'rake/clean'
require 'cucumber'
require 'cucumber/rake/task'

task :browser => ['features:setupenv', 'features:isbrowser', 'features:browser'] do
end

task :headless => ['features:setupenv', 'features:headless'] do
end

def setup_environment
  ENV['TEST_SERVER'] ||= 'devl'
  puts "running on the #{ENV['TEST_SERVER']} environment..."
end

namespace :features do

  task :setupenv do
    setup_environment
  end

  task :isbrowser do
    ENV['BROWSER'] ||= 'true'
  end

  Cucumber::Rake::Task.new(:browser, 'Run Cucumber Features using a Browser') do |t|
    t.profile = ENV['CI'] ? 'browser_ci' : 'browser' 
  end

  Cucumber::Rake::Task.new(:headless, 'Run Cucumber Features using a Headless Browser') do |t|
    t.profile = ENV['CI'] ? 'ci' : 'default' 
  end
end

task :default => :headless

test-ff.bat

@echo off
set TEST_SERVER=
set FIREWATIR=true
set CHROMEWATIR=
set WATIR=
@REM set FIREWATIRPATH=C:\path\to\your\other\version\of\firefox.exe

if "" == "%1%" goto NO_SERVER
set TEST_SERVER=%1
shift
echo testing on %TEST_SERVER% environment
:NO_SERVER

echo jruby -S rake --trace browser
jruby -S rake --trace browser

test-headless.bat

@echo off
set TEST_SERVER=
set FIREWATIR=
set CHROMEWATIR=
set WATIR=

if "" == "%1%" goto NO_SERVER
set TEST_SERVER=%1
shift
echo testing on %TEST_SERVER% environment
:NO_SERVER

echo jruby -S rake --trace headless
jruby -S rake --trace headless

test-ie.bat

@echo off
set TEST_SERVER=
set FIREWATIR=
set CHROMEWATIR=
set WATIR=true


if "" == "%1%" goto NO_SERVER
set TEST_SERVER=%1
shift
echo testing on %TEST_SERVER% environment
:NO_SERVER

echo jruby -S rake --trace browser
jruby -S rake --trace browser

See this is what you get when you take folks with Java skills and try to get them to program in Ruby. Thanks for the tip!