Has ChromeDriver been updated on the Ubuntu 14.04 (Trusty) image?

Build Environment
, ,
6

This doesn’t work as is, because the default dependencies command(1) doesn’t exclude the development group.

We could override the default command, but our next try has been this:

group :test do
  ...
  gem "chromedriver-helper" unless ENV.key?('CIRCLECI')
end

This does succeed at preventing the installation of the problematic newer version of ChromeDriver, but we have now another problem: Selenium WebDriver fails to connect to ChromeDriver, with this error message:

Selenium::WebDriver::Error::WebDriverError:
  unable to connect to chromedriver 127.0.0.1:9515

EDIT: we fixed this by rebuilding without cache. I guess that some files created by the gem and kept in the cache were interfering even after the gem was disabled.

A quick search on the forums led me to a topic discussing a similar issue. Interestingly, one of the solutions proposed to solve this is to use the gem that we just disabled :slight_smile:

This could work if chromedriver-helper allowed to configure the ChromeDriver version to install, but it’s not currently the case (there is an open pull-request for this on GitHub).

I haven’t really dug into this yet. I’d like to figure out the ChromeDriver connection problem, possibly by understanding how/why it worked with the gem, but I might use a patched version of the gem that allows pinning the ChromeDriver version to 2.27 as a quick workaround.

(1): defaut dependencies command:

$ bundle check --path=vendor/bundle || bundle install --path=vendor/bundle --jobs=4 --retry=3