The Gridinit beta has been officially released this weekend. ”Gridinit makes it incredibly simple to control hundreds of browsers from a single test case, with easy configuration and control of your own cloud based grid network.”

You can see a quick overview and video here.

Gridinit supports execution of Watir or Selenium test cases using Ruby in parallel on real browsers across a grid network, allowing you to easily distribute your tests.

Spend Less Time Scripting

Watir and Selenium scripts let you interact with the browser, not at the protocol level. You can use the same scripts from acceptance testing right through to performance testing.

Simply Powerful

Gridinit gives you options to control the grid as you prefer:

• A command line interface available as a gem
• A RESTful web service
• A simple web based interace

Our powerful yet simple API lets you incorporate the grid into your existing test frameworks including RSpec, Capybara, Cucumber and others. Have a look at our examples or write your own!

Up Next

Gridinit is the new kid on the block for cloud based distributed testing, with an eye for the Ruby community. We’ll be adding plenty more examples and integrating with more Ruby test frameworks as we listen to and explore user feedback through the beta. We’re also looking at BYO EC2 accounts, packaged installations for your own private networks, support for htmlunit, webrat and much more …

Learn more or sign up for an account now.

Email us at support@gridinit.com or follow us on twitter @gridinit