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thoughtbot / capybara-webkit

A Capybara driver for headless WebKit to test JavaScript web apps
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Installing on Windows 8.1 #938

Closed DidiRaggio closed 7 years ago

DidiRaggio commented 8 years ago

I managed to install capybara, although I ran into quite a few issues along the way. this worked for me:

Install qt-v4.8.5 add qmake path to env variables in system settings (C:\Qt\4.8.5\bin) run in console: QMAKE=C:\Qt\4.8.5\bin\qmake gem install capybara-webkit

I hope this helps anyone that has been running into similar issues. I had to use qt -v4.8.5 because -v4.7 didn't recognize windows 8.1 and -v5 didn't work at all

DidiRaggio commented 8 years ago

but the webkit_server doesn't seem to work... can anyone give me a hand?

jferris commented 8 years ago

I had to use qt -v4.8.5 because -v4.7 didn't recognize windows 8.1 and -v5 didn't work at all

I would strongly recommend getting Qt 5 installed. I realize it can be a challenge to get 5.x running on some platforms, and unfortunately we can't offer much assistance for platforms we don't use. However, at this point I would recommend using something else (like Selenium) rather than using capybara-webkit with Qt 4.

but the webkit_server doesn't seem to work... can anyone give me a hand?

Could you provide some details about how it doesn't work? Is there an error message you see? If you run webkit_server directly, does it provide any interesting feedback?