How do I get cucumber and databasecleaner to leave my seed data in my rails test db?

Question

I have several database tables that have data that is for display purposes only, it never changes. It takes a long time to load all the seed data. I am using cucumber which se

Answer 1

If you are using ActiveRecord or DataMapper you should be able to use the :transaction strategy instead of :truncation.

DatabaseCleaner.strategy = :transaction

Or as @traday points out, you can use an exclusion list with truncation.

DatabaseCleaner.strategy = :truncation, {:except => %w[widgets]}

The DatabaseCleaner docs are worth reading. Look in features/support/env.rb for where this is typically set up with Cucumber.