[SOLVED] Why is the watir gem failing with webdriver error?

Why is the watir gem failing with webdriver error?

After updating chrome, some test code built on the Watir gem fails to run with:

Webdrivers::VersionError: Unable to find latest point release version for 115.0.5790. You appear to be using a non-production version of Chrome. Please set `Webdrivers::Chromedriver.required_version = <desired driver version>` to a known chromedriver version: https://chromedriver.storage.googleapis.com/index.html

Webdrivers::VersionError: Unable to find latest point release version for 115.0.5790. You appear to be using a non-production version of Chrome. Please set Webdrivers::Chromedriver.required_version = <desired driver version> to a known chromedriver version: https://chromedriver.storage.googleapis.com/index.html

This is a bit strange as the version of chrome on my machine is Version 114.0.5735.198 (Official Build) (x86_64)

Solution

For my purposes, it was enough to just pin my script to the latest Chrome version available from https://chromedriver.storage.googleapis.com/LATEST_RELEASE

    Webdrivers::Chromedriver.required_version = `curl https://chromedriver.storage.googleapis.com/LATEST_RELEASE`