With RSpec, how to seed the database on load?

Question

I\'m using rspec for testing w my rails 3 app. I need to seed the database before the tests start. How can I seed the database with the following:

/db/seeds.rb

Answer 1

To load seeds in rspec you need to add it after database cleanup in confg.before(:suite) in spec_helper

config.before(:suite) do
  DatabaseCleaner.clean_with(:truncation)
  load Rails.root.join('db', 'seeds.rb')
end