# Capybara

Ruby library that simulates a user's interactions with a web application in acceptance tests.


Source: https://findsoftware.frbit.cloud/capybara/
Last reviewed: 2026-11-04
Listed since: 2026-11-04

## Record

### Links

- home: https://teamcapybara.github.io/capybara/
- repository: https://github.com/teamcapybara/capybara
- docs: https://github.com/teamcapybara/capybara
- forum: https://github.com/orgs/teamcapybara/discussions/categories/q-a

### Identity

- status: active
- maintainer: Thomas Walpole, Jonas Nicklas
- maintainerType: unknown
- parent: unknown
- firstRelease: 2009
- hqCountry: unknown

### Kind

- category: testing
- hosting: not applicable
- language: ruby
- runtime: ruby
- runtimeMin: ruby 3.0
- basedOn: unknown

### Content

- contentStore: not applicable
- databases: not applicable
- adminUi: not applicable
- headlessApi: not applicable
- templating: not applicable
- i18n: not applicable

### Rendering and deploy

- runsAs: unknown
- renderingModes: not applicable
- installMethod: bundler

### License

- licenseModel: open-source
- license: MIT

### Releases

- currentMajor: 3
- latestReleaseDate: 2024-01-27

### Adoption

- githubStargazers: 10175
- packagistDownloads: not applicable
- npmWeeklyDownloads: not applicable
- contributors: 325
- pluginCount: unknown
- packagistMonthlyDownloads: unknown
- ecosystemsMonthlyDownloads: unknown
- httpArchiveSites: unknown
- wordpressActiveInstalls: unknown
- dependentRepos: unknown
- dependentPackages: unknown

### Sources

- urls: https://teamcapybara.github.io/capybara/ (read 2026-11-04)
- urls: https://github.com/teamcapybara/capybara (read 2026-11-04)
- urls: https://github.com/teamcapybara/capybara/blob/master/README.md (read 2026-11-04)
- firstRelease: https://rubygems.org/api/v1/versions/capybara.json (read 2026-11-04)
- maintainer: https://github.com/teamcapybara/capybara/blob/master/License.txt (read 2026-11-04)
- language: https://github.com/teamcapybara/capybara (read 2026-11-04)
- category: https://github.com/teamcapybara/capybara/blob/master/README.md (read 2026-11-04)
- runtime: https://github.com/teamcapybara/capybara/blob/master/README.md (read 2026-11-04)
- runtimeMin: https://github.com/teamcapybara/capybara/blob/3.40.0/capybara.gemspec (read 2026-11-04)
- installMethod: https://github.com/teamcapybara/capybara/blob/master/README.md (read 2026-11-04)
- installMethod: https://teamcapybara.github.io/capybara/ (read 2026-11-04)
- license: https://github.com/teamcapybara/capybara (read 2026-11-04)
- licenseModel: https://github.com/teamcapybara/capybara (read 2026-11-04)
- currentMajor: https://rubygems.org/api/v1/gems/capybara.json (read 2026-11-04)
- latestReleaseDate: https://rubygems.org/api/v1/gems/capybara.json (read 2026-11-04)
- githubStargazers: https://github.com/teamcapybara/capybara (read 2026-11-04)
- contributors: https://api.github.com/repos/teamcapybara/capybara/contributors (read 2026-11-04)

## Notes

Capybara is a Ruby library that drives a web application the way a user would: it visits pages, clicks links and buttons, fills in forms and checks what is on the page. It plugs into RSpec, Cucumber, Minitest and Test::Unit, and Rails and Rack applications need no extra setup. The Rack::Test driver runs against a Rack application in the same process, and the Selenium driver runs the same tests in a real browser. WebKit is supported through an external gem. Installation is a Gemfile entry or a RubyGems install.

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