brynary/webrat
Webrat - Ruby Acceptance Testing for Web applications observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
32/100
- Activity 0
- Release rhythm 35
- Longevity 100
Flags: no_releases no_readme
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-03. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: n/a
- age_days: 6758
- days_rel: n/a
- days_push: 3718
- n_releases_24m: 0
Adoption not part of the score
1526 stars · 270 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded
Webrat is a Ruby library for writing expressive acceptance tests for web applications using a browser simulator instead of a real browser. It provides a high-level API (visit, click_link, fill_in) that works with Rails, Merb, and Sinatra, and integrates with RSpec, Cucumber, Test::Unit, and Shoulda.
Use cases
- write acceptance tests for a Rails app without Selenium
- simulate user interactions like filling forms and clicking buttons in tests
- verify rendered HTML with CSS or XPath matchers
- share the same test API between simulator and Selenium runs
- test Sinatra applications with Cucumber steps
When to choose
- maintaining a legacy Ruby/Rails codebase that already uses Webrat
- testing simple server-rendered pages without JavaScript
When to avoid
- starting a new Ruby project - use Capybara instead
- testing JavaScript-heavy or AJAX-heavy applications
- needing an actively maintained or supported tool
Facets
library · maturity abandoned
testing e2e-testing http-client testing web-development developer-tools ruby acceptance-testing browser-simulator rails sinatra cucumber rspec html-matching web-server
1 source
- homepage: http://rdoc.info/github/brynary/webrat/master/frames · fetched 2026-08-29 · 184867fc8589
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| brynary/webrat | main | 32 |
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