How to use rspec-retry with a Selenium Net::ReadTimeout error (Ruby)

Question

Can someone please give me a example of how to use rspec-retry with the selenium-webdriver. I am trying to get it to reattempt the navigation when there is a Net::ReadTimeout error. I found an example here but I am new to Ruby and don't think I am using it right.

What I have tried.

require 'selenium-webdriver' require 'rspec/retry' Selenium::WebDriver::PhantomJS.path = 'phantomjs.exe' driver = Selenium::WebDriver.for :phantomjs driver.manage.timeouts.page_load = 300 driver.navigate.to "http://google.com" RSpec.configure do |config| # show retry status in spec process config.verbose_retry = true # Try five times (retry 4 times) config.default_retry_count = 5 # Only retry when Selenium raises Net::ReadTimeout config.exceptions_to_retry = [Net::ReadTimeout] end puts(driver.title) driver.quit 

Answer 1

It sounds like you may not be using rspec at all, but just want the retry behavior that is provided by the rspec-retry gem. If that's the case, you could just use ruby's rescue and retry keywords to achieve the same thing.

For example, the following code will retry the navigation 1 time if the navigation throws a Net::ReadTimeout

require 'selenium-webdriver' Selenium::WebDriver::PhantomJS.path = 'phantomjs.exe' driver = Selenium::WebDriver.for :phantomjs driver.manage.timeouts.page_load = 300 attempts = 0 # has to be outside the begin/rescue to avoid infinite loop begin driver.navigate.to "http://google.com" rescue Net::ReadTimeout => e if attempts == 0 attempts += 1 retry else raise end end