I thought capybara doesn't require headless firefox unless you need
selenium?

Rex Chung




On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 10:25 AM, Daryl Manning <[email protected]>wrote:

> We're just checking the setup I put together last night is working and if
> it is, I'll write up a blog post and point to it from here with the deets.
> Not necessarily canonical but should help out and I imagine a lot of people
> probably want to do the same thing.
>
> Basically, was an Ubuntu 10.04 LTS on EC2 small instance with Hudson,
> github integration, xvfb and firefox and cucumber and capybara.
>
> Sound good?
> Daryl.
>
>
> On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 10:06 AM, Bodaniel Jeanes <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Hey Jason,
>>
>> I more or less stumbled along and figured it out. Do you remember where
>> his issues lied? The biggest challenge I encountered was making sure Xvfb
>> kept running and to make sure that we were explicitly setting the DISPLAY
>> var everywhere.
>>
>> E.g. when we started Xvfb we'd use DISPLAY=:99 and inside hudson config
>> we'd said an env variable that was always available that was the same.
>>
>> My old colleague wrote up a summary after he set it up here:
>> http://markgandolfo.com/2010/07/01/hudson-ci-server-running-cucumber-in-headless-mode-xvfb.
>> I remember that some pieces are missing or out of order from his summary,
>> but that still might be helpful for you.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Bo
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 11:22 PM, Jason Ong <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Bo
>>>
>>> My ex colleague was using xvfb + firefox. Remembered him encountering
>>> some issues. Perhaps you could point us to some resources?
>>>
>>> On 30 Nov 2010 14:08, "Bodaniel Jeanes" <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>> Yeah, I've used Xvfb + Firefox running headless on an Ubuntu CI server
>>> quite a few times. It works really well. That article looks fairly thorough
>>> but feel free to ping me if you have issues. I've done this setup countless
>>> times.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Bo
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 4:05 PM, Daryl Manning <[email protected]>
>>> wrote:
>>> >
>>> > So, we'd like ...
>>>
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