Are you new to Selenium too or just new to Ruby? I ask because there
is a very important development going on with Selenium. Please go to
the main Selenium site to check it out.
http://seleniumhq.org/
My suggestion to you would be to not spent too much time on Selenium-1/
Selenium-RC and start to developing your new code with Selenium2.
It's my understanding that only minor maintenance is happening for
Selenium-1/Selenium-RC and new development is only being focused on
Selenium2.
Basically there are two Selenium APIs now.
Selenium 1: Selenium-RC (server), selenium-client (rubygem client)
Selenium 2: Selenium2 (server), selenium-webdriver (rubygem client)
Selenium 2 actually contains both APIs and will run Selenium-1/
Selenium-RC API code as well. I have actually run my Selenium-RC
code with the Selenium2 (server) and the old selenium-client. When I
replace the selenium-client with selenium-webdriver I have problems
with "rake" that I have not resolved yet. But it is my understanding
that it should still run the old code.
--Steve