On Feb 13, 2012, at 1:16 PM, Patrick J. Collins wrote: > Hi, > > I was writing an integration test for my user signup form (with > capybara), and found that my test was failing due to a validation error: > "email is already taken". I'm a bit confused because I thought when I > run "rspec spec/some_spec.rb", the test database would be wiped clear? > > Is that not the case? > > Patrick J. Collins > http://collinatorstudios.com > > _______________________________________________ > rspec-users mailing list > rspec-users@rubyforge.org > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users
You basically have two options to ensure a clean database: 1.) Transactional examples: RSpec.configuration.use_transactional_examples = true 2.) DatabaseCleaner: RSpec.configure do |config| config.before { DatabaseCleaner.start } config.after { DatabaseCleaner.clean } end Look into what those do. Let us know if you get stuck. _______________________________________________ rspec-users mailing list rspec-users@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users