Use Watir-WebDriver behind proxy

Good Ruby script
#!/usr/bin/ruby
 
def create_firefox_profile
    profile = Selenium::WebDriver::Firefox::Profile.new
    profile['network.proxy.ftp']           = "proxy.foo.com"
    profile['network.proxy.ftp_port']      = 80
    profile['network.proxy.http']          = "proxy.foo.com"
    profile['network.proxy.http_port']     = 80
    profile['network.proxy.no_proxies_on'] = "localhost, 127.0.0.1, *.foo.com"
    profile['network.proxy.ssl']           = "proxy.foo.com"
    profile['network.proxy.ssl_port']      = 80
    profile['network.proxy.type']          = 1
    profile
end
 
require 'watir-webdriver'
ENV['no_proxy'] = '127.0.0.1'
 
b = Watir::Browser.new :firefox, :profile => create_firefox_profile
b.goto 'http://www.google.com'

Bad Ruby script
#!/usr/bin/ruby
 
require 'watir-webdriver'
profile = Selenium::WebDriver::Firefox::Profile.new
profile.proxy = Selenium::WebDriver::Proxy.new :http => 'proxy.foo.com:80', :ssl => 'proxy.foo.com:80'
browser = Watir::Browser.new :firefox, :profile => profile

from: http://tech.danbarrese.com/2013/04/08/solved-use-watir-webdriver-behind-proxy/

http://docs.seleniumhq.org/docs/04_webdriver_advanced.jsp#parallelizing-your-test-runs