setting up tests to run with Capybara on android device connected locally

[George Speake]

appium server running. chrome starts up and test attempts to navigate to 127.0.0.1:62918 but page can't be found because the rails app that is normally started by Capybara when testing on the desktop browser does not live on the android device. what am i missing?

    Capybara.register_driver :android_device do |app|

      caps = {:device => "Android", :app => 'chrome'}

      Capybara::Selenium::Driver.new(app, {:browser => :remote, :url => "http://localhost:4723/wd/hub", :desired_capabilities => caps})

    end

    Capybara.default_driver = :android_device

if i do a simple test like this, it works...

   caps = {:device => "Android", :app => 'chrome'}

   driver = Selenium::WebDriver.for :remote, :url => "http://localhost:4723/wd/hub", :desired_capabilities => caps

   driver.navigate.to "http://google.com"

   element = driver.find_element(:name, 'q')

   element.send_keys "Hello WebDriver!"

   element.submit

   puts driver.title

   driver.quit

thanks.

[Jonathan Lipps]

android localhost is not the same as system localhost. to get to system localhost on android, use 10.0.2.2 instead of 127.0.0.1

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[George Speake]

 " use 10.0.2.2 instead of 127.0.0.1" does this mean i can change this in the Capybara::DSL? or that i can't use Capybara::DSL? 

or maybe i just don't understand.

[Jonathan Lipps]

I mean that instead of attempting to navigate to 127.0.0.1:62918 you should try to navigate to 10.0.2.2:62918 for tests running in chrome on android. Not sure how you make your test change what it navigates to, that'd be a ruby/capybara question.