Why not use shared ActiveRecord connections for Rspec + Selenium?

Question

It seems the most commonly accepted way to deal with Selenium and tests is to avoid using transactional fixtures and then using something like database_cleaner between tests

Answer 1

I was just doing a little reading on this myself. I discovered the snippet you shared here in this blog post:

http://blog.plataformatec.com.br/2011/12/three-tips-to-improve-the-performance-of-your-test-suite/

To answer your question directly, the database cleaner github page cautions that it can " result in non-deterministic failures". I'd go right ahead and use it, but if you start running into weird failures, maybe this is a good place to start looking.