Getting Safari Webdriver To Work

This is going to take a good part of your day... so be prepared if you want to do this.

Where I work, I set up a Cucumber automation framework that basically runs: IE9, FF, Chrome and I was just given a Mac Mini to support Safari testing.

The ultimate goal is to have: IE8, IE9, FF, Chrome and Safari - running in parallel.

FF, Chrome and IE are pretty easy to set up.  HOWEVER, Safari, is a big pain.

First, you need to do everything here:
http://watirmelon.com/2012/04/17/using-watir-webdriver-with-safari-at-last/

That will pretty much take half your day.  If you have a fresh Mac, you'll need xCode and you'll need to get the command line package for xCode so you can use svn.  What Alister Scott on that link will tell you to do can be summed up as:

• Make a Apple Safari Dev account (free)
• Get a certificate
• Download the certificate
• Open Safari and install the certificate
• One thing not mentioned in the instructions, is that you can't install the cerficiate till Safari knows you're a developer, to do that you have to open the key chain on the mac and click system and drag/drop your certificate and they you must right-click the certificate, and set all actions as "TRUST" and finally you have to accept these changes.
• Then you build the extension (downloading via svn the code, and building the extension.

That's where Alister's tutorial ends... but you'll no doubt get a problem.  If you are like most, you'll get Safari hitting 127.0.0.1/wd for each test... not hitting your target site, and you'll get an error referencing "EOFError: end of file reached" One of the comments on Alister's post has the solution...

You now need to do a gem install selenium-webdriver (i couldn't do the -pre that he suggested, so i just did gem install selenium-webdriver) and I added this to my env.rb file as gem 'selenium webdriver'

After that, just rebuild: bundle update and you should be good.