Cucumber & Capybara against Spork - Always run tests in the same browser.

gistfile1.rb

require 'rubygems'
require 'spork'

ENV["RAILS_ENV"] = 'test'

Spork.prefork do

  require 'cucumber/rails'
  require 'capybara/rails'

  # ...

  # This is not even needed because of we starting shared browser in Spork process which pid != the cucumber's one. (according to present #browser implementation).
  # class Capybara::Selenium::Driver < Capybara::Driver::Base
  #   def quit
  #    nothing - do not close browser
  #    rescue Errno::ECONNREFUSED
  #    Browser must have already gone
  #  end
  # end
 
  module Capybara
    mattr_accessor :shared_session
    @@shared_session = nil

    class << self 
      def current_session
        session_pool["#{current_driver}:#{session_name}:#{app.object_id}"] ||= (current_driver == :selenium ? Capybara.shared_session : Capybara::Session.new(current_driver, app))
      end
    end
  end

  Capybara.shared_session = Capybara::Session.new(:selenium, Capybara.app)   
  # Need to touch browser to get @browser (again, see #browser)
  Capybara.shared_session.driver.browser
  
  # ...
end