How to Use Playwright in Ruby for Scraping and Testing

Microsoft does not provide an official Playwright Ruby client. Instead, Ruby developers opt for the community-maintained playwright-ruby-client gem, which exposes the same Node.js Playwright engine through a Ruby API. This tutorial shows how to use Playwright in Ruby, covering installation, scraping JavaScript-heavy pages, defining Rails system tests, how to reduce blocking, and when a web scraping API is a more viable option.