DEPRECATED: This monkey patch is no longer needed. Use slenium-webdriver >= 2.37.0 ! monkey patch for selenium-webdriver to work with chromedriver2

selenium_webdriver_for_chromedriver2.rb

require "selenium/webdriver"
require "selenium/webdriver/chrome"

module Selenium
  module WebDriver
    module Chrome
      class Bridge
        def create_capabilities(opts)
          caps                        = opts.delete(:desired_capabilities) { Remote::Capabilities.chrome }
          args                        = opts.delete(:args) || opts.delete(:switches)
          native_events               = opts.delete(:native_events)
          verbose                     = opts.delete(:verbose)
          # profile                     = opts.delete(:profile)
          prefs                       = opts.delete(:profile) || opts.delete(:prefs) # added this line
          detach                      = opts.delete(:detach)
          proxy                       = opts.delete(:proxy)
          no_website_testing_defaults = opts.delete(:no_website_testing_defaults)

          unless opts.empty?
            raise ArgumentError, "unknown option#{'s' if opts.size != 1}: #{opts.inspect}"
          end

          chrome_options = caps['chromeOptions'] || {}

          if args
            unless args.kind_of? Array
              raise ArgumentError, ":args must be an Array of Strings"
            end

            chrome_options['args'] = args.map { |e| e.to_s }
          end

          # if profile
          #   data = profile.as_json
          #
          #   chrome_options.merge! 'profile'    => data['zip'],
          #                         'extensions' => data['extensions']
          # end
          caps["chrome.prefs"] = prefs if prefs # added this line

          chrome_options['binary']                   = Chrome.path if Chrome.path
          chrome_options['nativeEvents']             = true if native_events
          chrome_options['verbose']                  = true if verbose
          chrome_options['detach']                   = detach.nil? || !!detach
          chrome_options['noWebsiteTestingDefaults'] = true if no_website_testing_defaults

          caps['chromeOptions'] = chrome_options
          caps['proxy'] = proxy if proxy

          # legacy options - for chromedriver < 17.0.963.0
          #caps["chrome.switches"] = chrome_options['args'] if chrome_options.member?('args')
          %w[binary detach extensions nativeEvents noWebsiteTestingDefaults profile verbose].each do |key|
            caps["chrome.#{key}"] = chrome_options[key] if chrome_options.member?(key)
          end

          caps
        end
      end
    end
  end
end