This is part of the Semicolon&Sons Code Diary - consisting of lessons learned on the job. You're in the dumb-mistakes-and-gotchas category.
Last Updated: 2024-11-23
chromedriver, which I used for browser testing, needed updating to work. I did
so, yet it still failed, leaving me perplexed.
Ultimately, I figured out why: the chromedriver binary that came first on my
PATH came from a Ruby gem (technically a "shim" of a Ruby gem) instead of the
package managed I used on macos (Homebrew). Therefore my fix had no effect
since I was still calling the wrong chromedriver version.
Watch out for having multiple versions of a binary on your path that shadow each
other. I could have figured out that I had multiple binary versions with $
which -a chromedriver.
What's more, I should have gotten the hint sooner because the binary I used said v. 2.40 whereas Homebrew said it installed v85. So another lesson is to pay attention to version differences in future and suspect binary shadowing.