deadlock detected with capybara-webkit

Question

I\'m trying to pass this spec :

scenario \"Edit a service\", js: true do
  service = create_service_for(provider, title: \"First service\")
  fill_edit_service_f         


        

Answer 1

This is happening because you have two threads, the test and the request, modifying the database asynchronously. It looks like you've rightly been experimenting with different configurations in your spec_helper. I've spend a fair amount of time struggling with this same issue, and have come up with this:

# adapted from https://gist.github.com/moonfly/4950750

require 'database_cleaner'

RSpec.configure do |config|

  config.use_transactional_fixtures = false

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

  config.around( :each ) do |spec|
    if spec.metadata[:js]
      # JS => doesn't share connections => can't use transactions
      spec.run
      DatabaseCleaner.clean_with :deletion
    else
      # No JS/Devise => run with Rack::Test => transactions are ok
      DatabaseCleaner.start
      spec.run
      DatabaseCleaner.clean

      # see https://github.com/bmabey/database_cleaner/issues/99
      begin
        ActiveRecord::Base.connection.send :rollback_transaction_records, true
      rescue
      end
    end
  end

end

I keep it all in support/database_cleaner_configuration.rb, which would work for you, as well, or you can simply replace what you've got in your spec_helper. If this doesn't work, let me know - I have a few other ideas, but they're kookier, and not worth getting into if this works, which it probably will...

Note:

It might be worth mentioning that Rails 5.1+ solves the database problem. Eileen Uchitelle on the Rails team made the changes necessary to run ensure test threads and the Rails server can run in the same process by sharing the database connection.