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How to open a new tab with Selenium
Until recently, you could open a new tab via window.open when using execute_script in Selenium tests. It no longer works in Chrome (will show a "popup blocked" notification).
This is because browsers usually block window.open unless the user interacted with an element for security reasons. I am not sure why it did work via Selenium before.
Here is an approach that will insert a link into the page, and have Selenium click it:
Copypath = "/your/path/here" id = "helper_#{SecureRandom.hex(8)}" execute_script <<-JAVASCRIPT var $helper = $('<a>').attr({ href: #{path.to_json}, id: #{id.to_json}, target: '_blank' }); $helper.prependTo('body').text('click me').css({ zIndex: 9999, position: 'absolute' }); setTimeout(function() { $helper.remove() }, 1000); JAVASCRIPT find("##{id}").click
Note that the link tag is removed after 1 second. You may or may not want to keep this.
Does your version of Ruby on Rails still receive security updates?
Rails LTS provides security patches for old versions of Ruby on Rails (3.2 and 2.3).
