I have recently played with Chrome on Ubuntu. Follow my instructions and it
should work:

https://github.com/zeljkofilipin/watirbook/blob/master/installation/ubuntu-11-04.md

Željko

On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 4:15 PM, Kyle Korbel <[email protected]>wrote:

> Well, it looks like */usr/bin/* is in the Ruby PATH.
>
> I don't need to run the JAVA standalone selenium server
> (selenium-server-standalone-2.4.0.jar) do I?  Again, I don't on my windows
> box which is working.
>
> Thank you for the help!
> Kyle
>
>
>
> On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 8:24 AM, joedio <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Kyle,
>>
>> Looks like you've followed the info at:
>> http://code.google.com/p/selenium/wiki/ChromeDriver
>>
>> Including:
>> a)  Downloading the chrome driver for your OS
>> b)  Installed it in a location on the file system that is in the OS
>> search path
>>    (e.g. /usr/bin/)
>>
>> See if /usr/bin is in the PATH used by ruby
>>   puts ENV["PATH"]
>>
>> I ran into a situation on OSX where it was not.
>> I set the PATH variable used by Ruby in my script to include /usr/bin
>> on a line in the script before it started my chrome browser.
>>
>> Joe
>>
>>
>> On Aug 23, 10:12 pm, Kyle Korbel <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > Hello all,
>> > I am having a small issue using the chrome browser with Ruby and the
>> > Watir-webdriver.  Has any one else had this issue?  I cannot figure it
>> out.
>> >  I have it up and running on a Win 7 box but not on my Linux machines.
>>  I
>> > get the same error with both.  I listed it below.  One box is Ubuntu
>> 11.04
>> > and the other is 11.10a.  Also, firefox works fine with the
>> watir-webdriver.
>> >  I have the code commented out below but it works.  It is just chrome
>> that
>> > is not working.  Any ideas?
>> >
>> > I am using chrome browser v. 13.0.??? or something like that.  It is a
>> > pretty new version.
>> >
>> > <===== code =====>
>> >
>> > require 'rubygems'
>> > require 'watir-webdriver'
>> >
>> > b = Watir::Browser.new(:chrome)
>> >
>> > ##### this one works fine #####
>> > # b = Watir::Browser.new(:firefox)
>> >
>> > <===== end code =====>
>> >
>> > <----- error recieved ----->
>> >
>> > Selenium::WebDriver::Error::UnhandledError: Could not find default
>> Chrome
>> > binary
>> > Backtrace:
>> > base::debug::StackTrace::StackTrace() [0x809e79a]
>> > webdriver::Error::Error() [0x807ffe5]
>> > webdriver::Automation::Init() [0x809a8c6]
>> > webdriver::Session::InitOnSessionThread() [0x808da8c]
>> > RunnableMethod<>::Run() [0x808cf0f]
>> > webdriver::Session::RunSessionTaskOnSessionThread() [0x808dc72]
>> > RunnableMethod<>::Run() [0x808c7e1]
>> > base::subtle::TaskClosureAdapter::Run() [0x80ad6f5]
>> > base::internal::Invoker1<>::DoInvoke() [0x80b798e]
>> > MessageLoop::RunTask() [0x80b961f]
>> > MessageLoop::DeferOrRunPendingTask() [0x80b9b5c]
>> > MessageLoop::DoWork() [0x80ba067]
>> > base::MessagePumpDefault::Run() [0x80bd390]
>> > MessageLoop::RunInternal() [0x80b80e4]
>> > MessageLoop::Run() [0x80b814d]
>> > base::Thread::Run() [0x80add8d]
>> > base::Thread::ThreadMain() [0x80ae29e]
>> > base::(anonymous namespace)::ThreadFunc() [0x80adb4c]
>> > start_thread [0xcbed31]
>> > 0x1b140ae
>> >
>> > from
>> >
>> /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/selenium-webdriver-2.4.0/lib/selenium/webdriver/remote/response.rb:45:in
>> > `assert_ok'
>> > from
>> >
>> /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/selenium-webdriver-2.4.0/lib/selenium/webdriver/remote/response.rb:15:in
>> > `initialize'
>> > from
>> >
>> /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/selenium-webdriver-2.4.0/lib/selenium/webdriver/remote/http/common.rb:53:in
>> > `new'
>> > from
>> >
>> /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/selenium-webdriver-2.4.0/lib/selenium/webdriver/remote/http/common.rb:53:in
>> > `create_response'
>> > from
>> >
>> /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/selenium-webdriver-2.4.0/lib/selenium/webdriver/remote/http/default.rb:56:in
>> > `request'
>> > from
>> >
>> /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/selenium-webdriver-2.4.0/lib/selenium/webdriver/remote/http/common.rb:34:in
>> > `call'
>> > from
>> >
>> /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/selenium-webdriver-2.4.0/lib/selenium/webdriver/remote/bridge.rb:410:in
>> > `raw_execute'
>> > from
>> >
>> /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/selenium-webdriver-2.4.0/lib/selenium/webdriver/remote/bridge.rb:88:in
>> > `create_session'
>> > from
>> >
>> /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/selenium-webdriver-2.4.0/lib/selenium/webdriver/remote/bridge.rb:68:in
>> > `initialize'
>> > from
>> >
>> /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/selenium-webdriver-2.4.0/lib/selenium/webdriver/chrome/bridge.rb:44:in
>> > `initialize'
>> > from
>> >
>> /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/selenium-webdriver-2.4.0/lib/selenium/webdriver/common/driver.rb:35:in
>> > `new'
>> > from
>> >
>> /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/selenium-webdriver-2.4.0/lib/selenium/webdriver/common/driver.rb:35:in
>> > `for'
>> > from
>> >
>> /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/selenium-webdriver-2.4.0/lib/selenium/webdriver.rb:81:in
>> > `for'
>> > from
>> >
>> /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/watir-webdriver-0.3.1/lib/watir-webdriver/browser.rb:35:in
>> > `initialize'
>> > from (irb):3:in `new'
>> > from (irb):3
>> > from  :0irb(main):004:0> ^C
>> >
>> > Lastly, I do have a link to google-chrome in the /usr/bin/ folder
>> >
>> > -rwxr-xr-x 2 root root 3573 2011-08-03 14:35 google-chrome
>> > -rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 18358264 2011-07-28 09:24 chromedriver
>> > -rwxr-xr-x 2 root root     3573 2011-08-03 14:35 chromium-browser
>> >
>> > Kyle
>>
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>>
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