Add this to your gemfile. gem 'selenium-rake' Run bundle and you will get the following... RAKE TASKS To start the selenium rc server. rake rc To stop the selenium server. rake rc:stop To run all tests in the test/functional folder with _selenium in the filename. rake rc:tests GENERATORS To override the selenium global selenium config settings, this will make the method global_config available in your individual test cases. rails generate config To generate an example test that can be found in test/functional rails generate example Pull requests, features, improvements, comments and issues are all welcomed...