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
> 
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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.
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