How to use rspec-retry with a Selenium Net::ReadTimeout error (Ruby) - ruby

Question

Can someone please give me a example of how to use rspec-retry with the selenium-webdriver. I am trying to get it to reattempt the navigation when there is a Net::ReadTimeout error. I found an example here but I am new to Ruby and don't think I am using it right.
What I have tried.
require 'selenium-webdriver'
require 'rspec/retry'
Selenium::WebDriver::PhantomJS.path = 'phantomjs.exe'
driver = Selenium::WebDriver.for :phantomjs
driver.manage.timeouts.page_load = 300
driver.navigate.to "http://google.com"
RSpec.configure do |config|
# show retry status in spec process
config.verbose_retry = true
# Try five times (retry 4 times)
config.default_retry_count = 5
# Only retry when Selenium raises Net::ReadTimeout
config.exceptions_to_retry = [Net::ReadTimeout]
end
puts(driver.title)
driver.quit

Answer 1

It sounds like you may not be using rspec at all, but just want the retry behavior that is provided by the rspec-retry gem. If that's the case, you could just use ruby's rescue and retry keywords to achieve the same thing.
For example, the following code will retry the navigation 1 time if the navigation throws a Net::ReadTimeout
require 'selenium-webdriver'
Selenium::WebDriver::PhantomJS.path = 'phantomjs.exe'
driver = Selenium::WebDriver.for :phantomjs
driver.manage.timeouts.page_load = 300
attempts = 0 # has to be outside the begin/rescue to avoid infinite loop
begin
driver.navigate.to "http://google.com"
rescue Net::ReadTimeout => e
if attempts == 0
attempts += 1
retry
else
raise
end
end