--- title: PhantomJS on TestingBot | TestingBot Blog description: Running tests with PhantomJS source_url: html: https://testingbot.com/blog/2012/11/30/phantomjs-headless-testing-with-selenium-webdriver-and-testingbot md: https://testingbot.com/blog/2012/11/30/phantomjs-headless-testing-with-selenium-webdriver-and-testingbot.md --- # PhantomJS and TestingBot Running tests with PhantomJS By [Jochen D.](https://testingbot.com/about/jochen-d)2012-11-30 Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Post on Reddit Share link Today we have added PhantomJS to our Linux VMs on our Selenium Grid. You can now run your WebDriver tests on PhantomJS + Ubuntu. PhantomJS is a headless WebKit solution which is very fast, it does not suffer from slow browser startup times or other issues you might encounter with browsers. Together with Ivan De Marino’s GhostDriver, we can now run Selenium WebDriver tests with PhantomJS. An example of how to run a simple test with Ruby and PhantomJS on our grid: ```ruby caps = { :browserName => "phantomjs", :platform => "LINUX" } urlhub = "http://key:secret@hub.testingbot.com:4444/wd/hub" client = Selenium::WebDriver::Remote::Http::Default.new client.timeout = 120 @webdriver = Selenium::WebDriver.for :remote, :url => urlhub, :desired_capabilities => caps, :http_client => client @webdriver.navigate.to "http://www.google.com/" puts @webdriver.title @webdriver.save_screenshot("./screenshot.png") @webdriver.quit ``` The example above will open the homepage of Google, print the title of the homepage and save a screenshot of the page on your harddisk. 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