Folks,
 [Posting here 'cause Shane Duan thought it was a good idea]
 
It's great to be running the Selenium proxy straight from Ruby.  Works
 great on my Mac.  Unfortunately, my fellow developers on Windows are
 not so lucky.  I have them developing ruby under Cygwin, and
 apparently Cygwin can't access a jar file using Unix style paths.
 Here's the error output:
 
java  -jar
 /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/Selenium-1.1.14/lib/selenium/openqa/
 selenium-server.jar.txt -multiWindow
 Unable to access jarfile /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/Selenium-1.1.14/
 lib/selenium/openqa/selenium-server.jar.txt
 
Running the command above that the gem is executing directly from
 command line results in the same error.  The only way I can start the
 proxy successfully is by going to that directory and running is from
 there, e.g:
 
cd /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/Selenium-1.1.14/lib/selenium/openqa
 java -jar selenium-server.jar.txt -multiWindow
 
I've tried "chmod 777" on the jar file, no luck.  I may have a lead
 based on this post:
 http://www.bernzilla.com/2008/05/12/unable-to-access-jar-file-from-a-...
 
The JDK is installed as a windows binary so it doesn't understand how
 to process a *nix style path.  I'm continuing the search for a
 workaround, any suggestions would be much appreciated.
 
I originally decided to use the Cygwin environment for ruby
 development on Windows to try and avoid compatibility problems.
 Ironic, yes?
 

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W00t!  I got it fixed.  I use a script called "start.rb" to start the
 proxy, so in that script I've overridden SeleniumServer::run to
 translate the path to the jar with cygpath if the script is run in the
 cygwin environment.  Should be a simple patch if you guys want to do
 it.
 CODE:
 
#!/usr/bin/env ruby
 
require 'rubygems'
 gem 'Selenium'
 require 'selenium'
 
args = ['-multiWindow']
 args += ARGV
 
module Selenium
 
  # Selenium server driver that provides API to start/stop server and
 check if
   # server is running.
   # NOTE: The start does not return until the server shuts down.
   class SeleniumServer
     # NOTE: overrode here to make the script run under Cygwin
     def SeleniumServer::run(argv, vmparameter='')
       jar_file = SeleniumServer.jar_file
       if (RUBY_PLATFORM == "i386-cygwin")
         jar_file = backtick("cygpath", "-w",
 "#{jar_file}").tr("\n","")
       end
       if (argv[0] == '-stop')
         server = SeleniumServer.new(argv[1])
         puts "stopping server on port #{server.port_number}"
         server.stop
       elsif argv[0] == '-check'
         server = SeleniumServer.new(argv[1])
         if (server.running?)
           puts "server running on #{server.port_number}"
         else
           puts "server not running on #{server.port_number}"
         end
       else
         command = "java #{vmparameter} -jar \"#{jar_file}\"
 #{argv.join(' ')}"
         puts command
         system(command)
       end
     end
   end
 
end
 
Selenium::SeleniumServer.run(args)
 
On Jul 29, 6:00 pm, "Shane Duan" <shane.d...@gmail.com> wrote:
 

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Whups, the line below the starts with "backtick" should be:
 jar_file = `cygpath -w "#{jar_file}"`.tr("\n","")
 
Great to see the devs on this project are so responsive!
 
Cheers,
 Morgan.
 
On Jul 29, 6:47 pm, "Shane Duan" <shane.d...@gmail.com> wrote:
 

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