I was determined to get our CI server running cucumber features in headless mode. I ran into a few webdriver problems which resulting in a small monkey patch (capybara patch being written and submitted) for capybara. This is how I got it running on a fedora 12 server (and some tips on getting it working on an ubuntu server). Install Xvfb On fedora sudo yum install xorg-x11-server-Xvfb on ubuntu su