Use selenium (Firefox) in Ruby in WSL environment

Advance preparation

Installation of required libraries

install firefox

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install -y firefox

Check the version of firefox

firefox --version

Install gecko driver

https://github.com/mozilla/geckodriver/releases

wget https://github.com/mozilla/geckodriver/releases/download/v0.28.0/geckodriver-v0.28.0-linux64.tar.gz
tar zxvf geckodriver-v0.28.0-linux64.tar.gz
chmod +x geckodriver
sudo mv -f geckodriver /usr/local/share/geckodriver
sudo ln -s /usr/local/share/geckodriver /usr/local/bin/geckodriver
sudo ln -s /usr/local/share/geckodriver /usr/bin/geckodriver

Operation check

--Package change

`Gemfile`


source "https://rubygems.org"

git_source(:github) {|repo_name| "https://github.com/#{repo_name}" }

gem "webdriver"
gem "selenium-webdriver"

--Package reflection

bundle install

--Ruby sample code

`test.rb`


require "selenium-webdriver"

opts = Selenium::WebDriver::Firefox::Options.new(args: ['--headless'])
driver = Selenium::WebDriver.for(:firefox, options: opts)

driver.navigate.to "https://google.com/"

puts driver.title

driver.quit

--Operation check

ruby test.rb

reference

--How to test Ruby with Selenium WebDriver [For beginners] https://techacademy.jp/magazine/18704

--Run Headless chrome on Ruby and Selenium on Ubuntu/Linux https://qiita.com/meguroman/items/41ca17e7dc66d6c88c07

-[Complete version] Cheat sheet that automatically operates (crawling / scraping) the browser with Python and Selenium https://tanuhack.com/selenium/