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Installation

Prerequisites

You need to have Ruby installed. Verify your installation by running ruby -v in a terminal - it should print "ruby 1.8.7" (or higher).

If you are on Windows you can get Ruby from RubyInstaller.org

You'll also need to have the Java Development Kit (JDK) installed and available. Calabash will attempt to automatically find this from registry keys on windows, or monodroid config elsewhere, but you can also specify it explicitly by setting the JAVA_HOME environment variable to its location (e.g. C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.8.0_20), or having the JDK binaries themselves (i.e. C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.8.0_20\bin) in your path.

You should have the Android SDK installed. You can download it from here. Create an environment variable with the name : ANDROID_HOME and its value pointing to the location of the unzipped downloaded SDK.

You also need to have Ant installed and added to your path. It can be downloaded from here.

Installation

Install calabash-android by running

  • gem install calabash-android
  • You might have to run sudo gem install calabash-android if you do not have the right permissions.

Troubleshooting Installation

Mac

If you are on Mac you may see an error like this:

~$ sudo gem install calabash-android
Password:
Building native extensions.  This could take a while...
ERROR:  Error installing calabash-android:
ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.

/System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/bin/ruby extconf.rb
mkmf.rb can't find header files for ruby at /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/lib/ruby/ruby.h

One possible cause can be not having the correct Command Line Tools (compiler tool chain) for your OS X release. For example, for OS X 10.8 "Mountain Lion" you need the "Mountain Lion" version of these. If you have Xcode installed you can install them from it's Preferences pane (in the Download tab). Otherwise you can download the Command Line Tools for you OS X version from the Apple Developer web site.

Ubuntu

These instructions assume you'll be using Ruby 1.9.1.

Installing Ruby:

sudo apt-get install ruby1.9.1

You might need to install the dev package when installing calabash:

sudo apt-get install ruby1.9.1-dev

If you see something like this while installing calabash:

cannot load such file -- rspec/expectations (LoadError)

It's because the rspec package isn't installed:

gem install rspec