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

I ended up needing to use DatabaseCleaner to truncate the database, then load the rake task that does my seeding (because I use seedbank). After that, I wound up wrapping my tests in a transaction like on the database_cleaner README, so that each test could run with a freshly loaded site.

RSpec.configure do |config|
  config.before(:suite) do
    DatabaseCleaner.strategy = :transaction
    DatabaseCleaner.clean_with(:truncation)
    MyApplicationName::Application.load_tasks
    Rake::Task['db:seed'].invoke # loading seeds
  end
  config.around(:each) do |example|
    DatabaseCleaner.cleaning do
      example.run
    end
  end
end