Open-sourcing Ferrum: a fearless Ruby Chrome driver
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SAN FRANCISCO - Californer -- Poltergeist is fantastic, but unfortunately, it's really quite outdated now. Selenium requires installing additional software, it's slower, and it doesn't give you full control of the browser. It's definitely not an option for everyone. Ferrum is faster than Selenium, there's no additional software to install, and with it, you have complete control of the browser.

Back in the 1970s when Unix first appeared on the horizon, almost everything was headless: the vast majority of tools you used just didn't have any sort of visible UI, excepting printing error messages when something went wrong.

Web start-up philosophy tends to be a little different to that of Unix. Start-ups can evolve in many ways, and we're constantly having to make trade-offs. Interpreted languages, dynamic typing, and automatic memory management all make life much easier than the tools the original Unix developers had to work with, and they allow us to write very readable code, but it can still be error-prone. The quicker we can write integration tests and run them, the lower the chances of not missing a bug: and that's where Ferrum, written by our colleague Dmitry, comes in.

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Here at Evrone, as well as open-sourcing some of the tools we've created ourselves, we also support other open-source initiatives, including offering our design and identity services to particularly promising and exceptional projects, such as Ferrum.

Read more about the Ferrum Ruby Chrome driver.

https://evrone.com/ferrum-ruby-chrome-driver
https://evrone.com/blog/ferrum-ruby-chrome-driver#hire_us