Programmatically determine the "baseUrl" in Example 2

Author: lukehorvat

example_2/Gulpfile.js

@@ -11,11 +11,13 @@ var isCI = args.type === 'ci';
 
 // Download and update the selenium driver
 gulp.task('e2etests:webdriver_manager_update', 'updates the selenium server standalone jar file ', gp.webdriver_update);
+
 gulp.task('e2etests:run', 'runs e2etests using protractor.conf', ['e2etests:server'], function(cb) {
 
 	gulp.src(['tests/e2e/**/*.js'], { read:false })
 		.pipe(gp.protractor({
-			configFile: './protractor.conf.js'
+			configFile: './protractor.conf.js',
+			args: ['--baseUrl', 'http://' + server.address().address + ':' + server.address().port]
 		})).on('error', function(e) {
 			server.close();
 			if(isCI) {

example_2/protractor.conf.js

@@ -8,11 +8,9 @@ exports.config = {
     'browserName': 'chrome'
   },
 
-  baseUrl: 'http://localhost:9001',
-
   // Options to be passed to Jasmine-node.
   jasmineNodeOpts: {
     showColors: true,
     defaultTimeoutInterval: 30000
   }
-};
+};