Loosen version constraint for childprocess dependency

[cjlarose]

I have an application that uses childprocess (= 3.0.0). Trying to introduce browsermob-proxy-rb (~> 0.3.1) to that project produces a conflict because browsermob-proxy-rb declares a dependency on childprocess (~> 0.5). To resolve the conflict, I can downgrade childprocess, but I'd prefer not to. This project appears to be compatible with all versions of childprocess from 0.5 to 3.0.0, so this change just loosens the version constraint in the gemspec.

Resolving dependencies...
Bundler could not find compatible versions for gem "childprocess":
  In snapshot (Gemfile.lock):
    childprocess (= 3.0.0)

  In Gemfile:
    browsermob-proxy (~> 0.3.1) was resolved to 0.3.1, which depends on
      childprocess (~> 0.5)

    webdrivers was resolved to 4.2.0, which depends on
      selenium-webdriver (>= 3.0, < 4.0) was resolved to 3.142.7, which depends on
        childprocess (>= 0.5, < 4.0)

Running `bundle update` will rebuild your snapshot from scratch, using only
the gems in your Gemfile, which may resolve the conflict.

If I remove the constraint in my Gemfile that I want the latest version of browsermob-proxy-rb, bundler installs version 0.1.7 since that version had no constraint at all on the childprocess version. This is similarly undesirable.

browsermob-proxy-rb/browsermob-proxy.gemspec

Line 19 in aa7e41f

s.add_runtime_dependency "childprocess"

[thiagotrentin]

@cjlarose did you gave up on this gem?I'm facing this childprocess conflict as well and unfortunately looks like this gem is unmaintained 😞

[cjlarose]

I was able to just use my fork (https://github.com/cjlarose/browsermob-proxy-rb) directly from github (branch: loosen-version-constraint-childprocess) in my Gemfile.

But ultimately, I ended up using a different solution to my problem altogether. Originally, I wanted to capture network traffic as a HAR when running my automated test suite. Browsermob proxy / Browserup proxy seemed like a good option, but ultimately, I went with a solution that connects to the browser (Chrome in this case) using puppeteer and that can also capture network activity and save it as a HAR.

See https://github.com/Everettss/puppeteer-har

I wrote a HTTP interface around that library so I could use it from Ruby

https://github.com/appfolio/puppeteer-har-server