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hyper-spec throws uninitialized constant Selenium::WebDriver::Firefox::Service

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Assessment

Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
rails, ruby
Domain
testing-qa

Research direction

Start by reproducing the hyper-spec upgrade failure in a Rails console and inspect how the Selenium Firefox reference is loaded. Compare the behavior with the mentioned Webdrivers::Geckodriver.update workaround; done means the reported uninitialized constant no longer occurs without requiring that manual update.

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Description

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When upgrading to hyper-spec i get a strange

uninitialized constant Selenium::WebDriver::Firefox::Service

although i don't user Selenium::WebDriver::Firefox::Service anywhere in my code (only references to Selenium::WebDriver::Firefox)

A solution i have found and according to https://github.com/titusfortner/webdrivers

Is to try and execute:

Webdrivers::Geckodriver.update

in rails console.

This updates the local Geckodriver automatically

as @catmando noted, if hyper-spec is both in test and development environment 'rails c' might be unusable so remove it temporarilly from the dev env

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