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Example of creating screenshots of your site using Capybara and Selenium, for details: http://blog.appsignal.com/blog/2015/07/21/automated-screenshots-using-capybara.html
BROWSER_WIDTH = 1600
BROWSER_HEIGHT = 1200
Capybara.default_driver = :selenium
include Capybara::DSL
def take_screenshot(path, name, convert_options={})
# Wait for JS to load data and so on
sleep 2
retinafy_screen
t_file = tmp_file(path, name)
s_file = screenshot_file(path, name)
page.save_screenshot(t_file)
convert(
t_file,
s_file,
convert_options
)
optimize(s_file)
end
def retinafy_screen
# Zoom content to get retina screenshot
page.driver.execute_script('
body = document.getElementsByTagName("body")[0];
body.style["transform-origin"] = "top left";
body.style["transform"] = "scale(2)";
')
end
def tmp_file(path, name)
Rails.root.join("tmp/#{path || 'root'}_#{name}.png")
end
def screenshot_file(path, name)
if path
Rails.root.join("app/assets/images/homepage/screenshots/#{path}/#{name}.png")
else
Rails.root.join("app/assets/images/homepage/screenshots/#{name}.png")
end
end
def url(path)
"https://appsignal.com#{path}"
end
def crop_arg(width, height, x=0, y=0)
"#{retina_size(width)}x#{retina_size(height)}+#{retina_size(x)}+#{retina_size(y)}"
end
def retina_size(size)
size * 2
end
def convert(from_file, to_file, args)
args_s = args.map do |key, value|
"-#{key} #{value}"
end.join(' ')
`convert #{from_file} #{args_s} #{to_file}`
end
def optimize(file)
`pngquant --force --output #{file} #{file}`
end
task :homepage do
visit url('/')
take_screenshot nil, 'intro', :crop => crop_arg(BROWSER_WIDTH, 650)
end
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