Question

I’m trying to set up RSpec, Capybara & Selenium to test a PHP application running on the traditional localhost:80. Whenever I run the suite, Selenium fails and complains about a malformed URI.

Here’s my spec_helper.rb.

require 'bundler/setup'
require 'rspec'
require 'capybara/rspec'

Capybara.server_port = 80
Capybara.app_host = 'http://localhost'
Capybara.run_server = false
Capybara.default_driver = :selenium

And here’s my only spec:

require File.dirname(__FILE__) + '/../spec_helper'

describe "visting the website", :type => :request do

  it "should display an html page" do  
      visit ( '/' )
      page.should have_selector( 'html' )
  end  

end 

But it bails. What am I missing?

Failures:

  1) visting the website should display an html page
     Failure/Error: visit ( '/' )
     Selenium::WebDriver::Error::UnknownError:
       Component returned failure code: 0x804b000a (NS_ERROR_MALFORMED_URI) [nsIIOService.newURI]
     # ./spec/requests/sign_in_spec.rb:6:in `block (2 levels) in <top (required)>'

My URI doesn’t look malformed to me… visit works if I pass in ‘http://localhost’ but that’s not ideal.

Here’s my Gemfile for good measure

gem 'rspec'
gem 'capybara', :git => 'https://github.com/jnicklas/capybara.git'
gem 'launchy'
gem 'ruby-debug19'

Thanks for any help.

Answer 1

@andrykonchin was right – switching back to stable worked