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Asked: 2026-06-13T10:05:39+00:00

Need help. Scripted in ruby (Not rails) and capybara-webkit gem used. Checked both on

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Need help. Scripted in ruby (Not rails) and capybara-webkit gem used. Checked both on EC2 and Linode and this error persists.


webkit_server: cannot connect to X server
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/capybara-webkit-0.12.1/lib/capybara/driver/webkit/connection.rb:103:in attempt_connect'
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/capybara-webkit-0.12.1/lib/capybara/driver/webkit/connection.rb:96:inconnect'
/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/timeout.rb:62:in timeout'
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/capybara-webkit-0.12.1/lib/capybara/driver/webkit/connection.rb:94:inconnect'
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/capybara-webkit-0.12.1/lib/capybara/driver/webkit/connection.rb:17:in initialize'
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/capybara-webkit-0.12.1/lib/capybara/driver/webkit.rb:26:innew'
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/capybara-webkit-0.12.1/lib/capybara/driver/webkit.rb:26:in initialize'
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/capybara-webkit-0.12.1/lib/capybara/webkit.rb:5:innew'
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/capybara-webkit-0.12.1/lib/capybara/webkit.rb:5
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/capybara-1.1.2/lib/capybara/session.rb:61:in call'
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/capybara-1.1.2/lib/capybara/session.rb:61:indriver'
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/capybara-1.1.2/lib/capybara/session.rb:157:in visit'
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/capybara-1.1.2/lib/capybara/dsl.rb:161:invisit'

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  1. Editorial Team

    Use the xvfb package to generate a virtual framebuffer.
    Issue resolved https://github.com/thoughtbot/capybara-webkit/issues/402

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