Execute CDP from a Capybara test

Selenium Chrome:

With capybara you can access the page's driver by using page.driver. Next you can access the browser methods on the driver withpage.driver.browser, then the .execute_cdpmethod can be used to execute chrome devtools commands on your webdriver browser.

In a capybara test, it could like:

test_browser = page.driver.browser

coordinates = { latitude: 35.689487,
                longitude: 139.691706,
                accuracy: 100 }

test_browser.execute_cdp('Emulation.setGeolocationOverride', **coordinates)

This can be used to mock some client-side information such as user device metrics, geo-location, or even emulate slow CPUs 😳

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