Bug#703492: ITP: ruby-selenium-webdriver -- a tool for writing automated tests of websites

[Praveen A <pravi.a@gmail.com>]

2013/3/21 Jérémy Bobbio <lunar@debian.org>:
> Hi Praveen!
>
> I just had a look at the selenium-webdriver gem, and it looks like a
> tough one. :(

:(

> For the good news: the runtime dependency on the 'websocket' gem can be
> ditched easily: it's only needed for the Safari driver, which is no use
> on Debian.

thanks for this observation.

> For the bad news: the gem cannot be used a the Debian source, it ships
> with the following files that should be built from source:
>
>   lib/selenium/webdriver/firefox/extension/webdriver.xpi
>   lib/selenium/webdriver/firefox/native/linux/amd64/x_ignore_nofocus.so
>   lib/selenium/webdriver/firefox/native/linux/x86/x_ignore_nofocus.so

ah! that's going to be a tough task. Feel free to try, or I'll come
back to it later. May be these are built as part of bigger selenium
package will have to find out.

> The gem does not ship any test files either…

I have requested upstream to include it in gem
http://code.google.com/p/selenium/issues/detail?id=5368

> In any cases it looks like this gem should actually be packaged as part
> of a larger 'selenium' source package that should probably build way
> more packages than just 'ruby-selenium-webdriver'…

Probably. My interest is to get the ruby part packaged for now, if
anyone want the remaining part they could try it.
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