Robotframework Ride IDE

Run the Robotframework Ride IDE X app accessible in a web browser

Install

On platforms like macOS, Ubuntu Synology 6.0 DSM, etc you can start with a command like:

docker run \
       -d \
       --rm \
       --name="robot" \
       -e WIDTH="1280" \
       -e HEIGHT="720" \
       -v $(pwd)/config:/config:rw \
       -v $(pwd)/robot:/robot \
       -p XXXX:8080 \
        jmcn/robotframework-ride-web

Syntax:

docker run [docker options] ivonet/robotframework-ride[:version] [image options]

Setup Instructions

• Replace the variable "$(pwd)/config" with your choice of folder on your system. That is where the config and the library files will reside, and they will survive an update, re installation, etc. of the container.
• Replace the variable "$(pwd)/robot" with your choice of folder where you can store your testcases locally on your system. That is where the config and the library files will reside, and they will survive an update, re installation, etc. of the container.
• Change "XXXX" to a port of your choice, it will be the port for the main Ride GUI
• If you'd like to change the resolution for the GUI, you can modify the WIDTH and HEIGHT variables

You can access the GUI by pointing your web browser to http://SERVERIP:XXXX/#/client/c/Ride

Or by going to http://SERVERIP:XXXX and selecting Ride in the gui.

Replace SERVERIP, XXXX with your values. SERVERIP is mostly localhost on docker native and docker-machine ip default if still with virtualbox

Commandline Options

Environment

• EDGE=[0|1] -> 0 no auto update, 1 auto update
• WIDTH -> default 1280
• HEIGHT -> default 720

Volumes

• /robot -> map to local folder and safe your testcases here
• /config -> map to local folder if you want the config t survive image updates

Port

• map local port to 8080 on vm to get access to the web interface from local machine

Examples

Example 1 - Daemon mode Ride IDE in browser

docker run \ 
      -d \
      --rm \
      --name="ride" \
      -v $(pwd)/config:/config:rw \
      -v $(pwd)/robot:/robot \
      -p 8080:8080 \
      jmcn/robotframework-ride-web

• Runs the Robotframework Ride IDE in deamon mode with the config in the current folder/config and test files in the current folder/robot dir.
• Runs on port 8080
• The image is called ride during run phase
• When stopped the named (ride) image is removed.
• Show in browser (assuming that you run docker native)

Example 2 - Interactive shell mode

docker run \
       -it \
       --rm \
       --name "robot" \
       -v $(pwd):/mnt \
       -v $(pwd)/robot:/robot \
       -p 8888:8080 \
        jmcn/robotframework-ride-web /bin/sh

• runs in interactive mode
• image is called robot
• port 8888 is mapped to 8080 in vm
• mounts the current folder on virtual machine /mnt folder
• enters the shell
• you can access play around with the system to try stuff out through the commandline
• the image will be removed after stopping the instance
• command /sbin/my_init with start the gui server
• Show in browser (assuming that you run docker native and you ran the gui server)

Example 3 - Daemon mode with auto update

docker run \
       -d \
       --name="ride" \
       -e EDGE=1 \
       -v $(pwd)/config:/config:rw \
       -v $(pwd)/robot:/robot \
       -p 8080:8080 \
       jmcn/robotframework-ride-web:1.0.0

• runs image version 1.0.0
• auto update enabled by setting the EDGE variable to 1 (default 0)
• named image will remain after stop (you can start it again with docker start ride)
• rest same as example 1

Example 4 - Interactive mode with auto update

docker run \ 
       -it \
       --name="ride" \
       -e EDGE=1 \
       -v $(pwd)/config:/config:rw \
       -v $(pwd)/robot:/robot \
       -p 8080:8080 \
        jmcn/robotframework-ride-web:latest

• auto update enabled by setting the EDGE variable to 1 (default 0)
• named image will remain after stop (you can start it again with docker start ride)
• interactive mode
• rest same as example 1

Example 5 - Run multiple commands in interactive mode

docker run \
       -it \
       --rm \
       --name="runbot" \
       -e EDGE=1 \
       -v $(pwd)/robot:/robot \
       jmcn/robotframework-ride-web \
       /bin/bash -c "cd;\
                     git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/robotframework/robotframework.git;\
                     cd robotframework;\
                     atest/run.py python --exclude no-ci --exclude jybot_only --exclude require-screenshot --exclude require-tkinter --outputdir /robot atest/robot"  

• run the ride image in interactive mode
• remove named image when stopped when stopped
• auto update
• map ./robot to the test folder
• run the following commands:
  • cd -> goto home dir
  • git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/robotframework/robotframework.git -> Clone the robotframework into the homedir
  • cd robotframework go into the cloned repo
  • atest/run.py python --exclude no-ci --exclude jybot_only --exclude require-screenshot --exclude require-tkinter --outputdir /robot atest/robot -> run the acceptance tests and report the results to the mapped /robot dir
• quit after run
• add ;/bin/sh to the last command to not exit but enter the shell after run

ToDo

• pip install robotframework-sshlibrary -> Fails to build

Screenshots

Entre Screen

Ride in browser

Output of Example 5