rails test database won't wipe

Question

I'm running rails 3.0.3 and using rspec-rails 2.4.1 with a postgresql database. Whenever I run my RSpec tests, the data remains at the end. Does anyone know how to get rails or rspec to wipe the test environment's data between each use?

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Thanks!
Tristan

Answer 1

Install the database_cleaner gem and then add this to your spec_helper.rb.

Spec::Runner.configure do |config|

  config.before(:suite) do
    DatabaseCleaner.strategy = :transaction
    DatabaseCleaner.clean_with(:truncation)
  end

  config.before(:each) do
    DatabaseCleaner.start
  end

  config.after(:each) do
    DatabaseCleaner.clean
  end

end