Factory Girl / Capybara deleting records from database mid-test?

Question

Working with RSpec & Capybara, I\'m getting an interesting test failure mode which goes away with a few subtle rearrangements of lines in the test case...stuff that shouldn\

Answer 1

With the help of the Factory Girl mailing list I've found the issue.

By default RSpec uses transactions to maintain the database in a clean state and each transaction is tied to a thread. Somewhere along the pipeline the visit_page command splits off and the transaction tied to the current thread dies.

The solution is simple: disable transactions.

describe "Sessions" do
  self.use_transactional_fixtures = false

   it 'no longer uses transactions' do
     #whatever you want
  end
end

Update for Rails 5.1

As of Rails 5.1, use_transactional_fixtures is deprecated and should be replaced with use_transactional_tests.

self.use_transactional_tests = false