Rspec is using my development DB

Question

I\'m using Rspec for testing. However, it uses my development DB instead of my test DB. How can this occur?

I simply use rspec to run my tests: don:my_project_root

Answer 1

I don't know if any of you is still having the issue, but for me moving

ENV["RAILS_ENV"] ||= 'test'

from rails_helper.rb to the top of spec_helper.rb fixed it. spec_helper.rb does a few things before loading rails_helper.rb, and something probably touches the database during that time.