Rails - May 2009 - Cucumber + Selenium: Programmatically Starting a Test Server

Hi All,

I am trying to learn BDD using the Cucumber framework, and am
integrating Selenium for client side tests.  I''ve been playing with
refactoring my cucumber installation a bit, and have pulled the code
to start the selenium server out into a profile-configuration file,
similar to env.rb:

# start selenium
server
@@browser = Selenium::SeleniumDriver.new("localhost", 4444,
"*chrome",
"http://localhost", 15000)
@@browser.start

# teardown - stop selenium
server
at_exit do
  @@browser.stop
end

I would like to do the same thing to start my rails application test
server that I can run browser tests against, but I''ve googled and
haven''t been able to find a clearcut suggestion.  Does anyone know how
to start/stop a rails server in :test mode via ruby?  Will I have to
resort to system() calls?  Your help and time is appreciated!

Aaron