Changing appium driver to 3rd party cloud provider

shermaneric · January 6, 2015, 10:49pm

Hey there,
Currently I have things up and running with the bootstraponline cucumber_android and ios setup.
https://github.com/appium/sample-code/tree/master/sample-code/examples/ruby > cucumber_android/features

I’ve gotten things working locally and on SauceLabs. I want to try another cloud provider as well, but i’m not sure where to change the driver. It looks like the driver is inherently set up in one of the gems.

Any help most welcome. Thanks in advance!
Eric

shermaneric · January 6, 2015, 11:01pm

I thought that the driver custom_url change would work (see 2nd link) but it seemed to not. Not sure if we need to modify the env.rb with redeclaring the @appium_driver as in the docs file.

github.com

appium/ruby_lib/blob/master/docs/docs.md

# Documentation
## API Doc of Ruby Client
- This library: http://www.rubydoc.info/github/appium/ruby_lib
- Core: http://www.rubydoc.info/github/appium/ruby_lib_core
- [Ruby selenium-webdriver](https://github.com/SeleniumHQ/selenium/wiki/Ruby-Bindings)

### General
- [Appium](https://github.com/appium/appium/blob/master/README.md)
- [Supported platforms](https://github.com/appium/appium/blob/master/docs/en/about-appium/platform-support.md)
- [All methods supported by Appium](https://github.com/appium/appium-base-driver/blob/master/docs/mjsonwp/protocol-methods.md)
    - Fundamental Commands: http://appium.io/docs/en/commands/status/ etc
- [MiniTest Expectations](http://docs.seattlerb.org/minitest/Minitest/Expectations.html)

### Driver types in Ruby Client

```ruby
# Appium specific driver with helpers available extending Standard Appium Driver.
@appium_driver = Appium::Driver.new @options, false

# Standard Appium Driver extends Selenium WebDriver.

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github.com

appium/ruby_lib/blob/master/lib/appium_lib/driver.rb#L232


when :android
  case automation_name
  when :uiautomator2
    ::Appium::Android::Uiautomator2::Bridge.for(self)
  when :espresso
    ::Appium::Android::Espresso::Bridge.for(self)
  else # default and UiAutomator
    ::Appium::Android::Bridge.for(self)
  end
when :ios
  case automation_name
  when :xcuitest
    ::Appium::Ios::Xcuitest::Bridge.for(self)
  else # default and UIAutomation
    ::Appium::Ios::Bridge.for(self)
  end
when :mac
  # no Mac specific extentions
  Appium::Logger.debug('mac')
when :windows
  # no windows specific extentions

bootstraponline · January 6, 2015, 11:17pm

What provider are you trying to use? The Ruby bindings should work anywhere, not just Sauce Labs. Usually they will tell you to add some additional desired capabilities.

shermaneric · January 7, 2015, 4:49am

Thanks bootstraponline.
I was working with bitbar.
The issue was that custom_url needed to be placed under the appium_lib section in the appium.txt file.

Things seem to be working
Thanks for checking in though!