Similarly, I've used the phantomjs buildpack (with the "poltergeist" rubygem) to take page screenshots. Specifically, to render D3-based charts and convert them to images for emailing.
https://github.com/srbartlett/heroku-buildpack-phantomjs-2.0.git So if there's a buildpack it means at least someone is doing it. But it my experience these types of dependencies can be very finicky, so I'd be hesitant to use them in production. My strategy was to create an entirely separate app and query it as a service, handling errors if the service goes down for whatever reason. On Tue, May 31, 2016 at 11:28 AM Scott Persinger <sco...@heroku.com> wrote: > Well...I don't know if no one does it..there is a buildpack. Looks like it > uses chrome rather than firefox: > > https://github.com/tstachl/heroku-buildpack-selenium > > > > On Tuesday, May 31, 2016 at 5:59:01 AM UTC-7, Jason FB wrote: > >> >> You will want to remove the selenium gem from the 'production' group. >> Generally you only keep the test-related gems in a 'test' group. >> >> No one runs selenium on Heroku, this can't be done and does not make sense >> >> >> >> On May 31, 2016, at 6:52 AM, 'vierund...@googlemail.com' via Heroku >> Community <her...@googlegroups.com> wrote: >> >> Not sure what you are trying to accomplish here: Do you want to use >> Heroku to drive Selenium-Tests? Not sure, why one would want to that. >> >> The error basically says that there isn't a firefox installed: Selenium >> is basically piggy-backing on a firefox to simulate user-interaction with >> your webapp. But heroku also does not have a windowing-system, it's server >> only, so even if you could get firefox installed you will not be able to >> run it. >> >> If what you want to is test that the webapp you deployed on heroku is >> doing what you want it to do, you should be able to run selenium-tests from >> your local machine and point it to the deployed webapp. Or is it something >> entirely different you are trying to do?! >> >> >> Am Montag, 30. Mai 2016 17:11:13 UTC+2 schrieb etp: >>> >>> Hi, >>> I wrote a java project with selenium to test a web application. >>> I use firefox web driver. When I launch my application in local >>> everything works fine. The program launchs a new window of firefox browser. >>> But when I deploy my java app on heroku and see logs, the app crashed: >>> nested exception is org.openqa.selenium.WebDriverException: Cannot find >>> firefox binary in PATH. Make sure firefox is installed. OS appears to be: >>> LINUX >>> 2016-05-30T15:08:46.103844+00:00 app[web.1]: Build info: version: >>> 'unknown', revision: 'unknown', time: 'unknown' >>> 2016-05-30T15:08:46.103845+00:00 app[web.1]: System info: host: >>> 'f9088c52-dbf1-4b44-b9d8-1ce23c4ec211', ip: '172.18.171.30', os.name: >>> 'Linux', os.arch: 'amd64', os.version: '3.13.0-85-generic', java.version: >>> '1.8.0_92-cedar14' >>> 2016-05-30T15:08:46.103846+00:00 app[web.1]: Driver info: >>> driver.version: FirefoxDriver >>> >>> How can I make selenium works with Heroku? >>> >>> >>> >> -- >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> Groups "Heroku" group. >> >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> >> heroku+un...@googlegroups.com >> >> >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/heroku?hl=en_US?hl=en >> >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Heroku Community" group. >> >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to heroku+un...@googlegroups.com. >> >> >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> >> >> ---- >> >> Jason Fleetwood-Boldt >> te...@datatravels.com >> http://www.jasonfleetwoodboldt.com/writing >> >> If you'd like to reply by encrypted email you can find my public key on >> jasonfleetwoodboldt.com (more about setting GPG: https://gpgtools.org) >> > -- > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Heroku" group. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > heroku+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/heroku?hl=en_US?hl=en > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Heroku Community" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to heroku+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Heroku" group. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to heroku+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/heroku?hl=en_US?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Heroku Community" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to heroku+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
