Even supports file downloads!
How popular is Headless Chrome? RSpec, Capybara and Headless Chrome February 26, 2019. A nice and tidy Capybara driver for headless Chrome.
Tagged with ruby, selenium, capybara, rspec. With Capybara, there is a possibility to take a screenshot during your tests (or automatically on a failure). If you’d like to watch the tests execute while debugging, you can change the driver to chrome.. You may notice that the headless_chrome driver also passes the disable-gpu option. Usage Capybara Setup. This feature results in an empty gray image on headless Chrome 59 but the proper behavior is restored on Chrome 60 (in beta as of today). However, Google recently released Headless Chrome with their 59 version of it’s Chrome browser and it’s performance is really impressive.I decided switch to it on my current project and updated my Capybara configuration to supports it and have been really satisfied with the performance improvement. Quick walkthrough of Rails tests using Capybara & Selenium for Chrome, with and without the headless feature of chromedriver. The reason for doing this is many of our website visitors use the chrome browser, and the new headless version of Chrome allows us to run an automated test suite on our application that uses it in a way our users do. This configures chrome and headless_chrome drivers and sets Capybara to use headless_chrome for JavaScript tests by default. trigger method Options. I spent yesterday getting headless Chrome working with RSpec and Capybara on one our projects at MAPC. Just require "capybara/headless_chrome" somewhere in your test setup.

In comparison to … The chart below shows the amount of traffic generated by Headless Chrome and other major headless browsers since its release date in June 2017.

This will register the :chrome driver, and make it Capybara's default. It’s used in dedicated headless browsers like PhantomJS and NightmareJS, test frameworks like Capybara and Jasmin, and tools like Selenium that can automate different browsers including Chrome. If you want to change some of the options Chrome is started with, just reregister the driver: