Why does my Cucumber test fail when run with Selenium?

Question

I am testing a Rails 3 app with a Cucumber/Capybara combo. I am also trying to use Selenium to test some JavaScript specific scenarios but am running into weird difficulties

Answer 1

For those who have the same issue with database in selenium tests, here is a really useful chat with three basic solutions summarized by Jonas (see the first April, 5th message): https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/ruby-capybara/JI6JrirL9gM/R6YiXj4gi_UJ