Rspec, Cucumber: best speed database clean strategy

Question

I would like to increase the speed of my tests.

1. Should I use use_transactional_fixtures or go with the database_cleaner gem?
2. Whi

Answer 1

RSpec.configure do |config|

  config.before(:suite) do
    DatabaseCleaner.clean_with(:truncation)
  end

  config.before(:each) do
    DatabaseCleaner.strategy = :transaction
  end

  config.before(:each, :js => true) do
    DatabaseCleaner.strategy = :truncation
  end

  config.before(:each) do
    DatabaseCleaner.start
  end

  config.after(:each) do
    DatabaseCleaner.clean
  end

end

This is from Avdi Grimm's post about database cleaner and Rspec. Step-by-step analysis of the code is in the article.