Question

I was running tests, and first time round, they all pass green. If I run the test again, some fail with the following message:

 Failure/Error: @user = Factory :user
     ActiveRecord::RecordInvalid:
       Validation failed: Email has already been taken

I am really confused as to why this is happening. I thought rspec did not push values to the database. If I purge the test database, this is fixed, but then, on second round of test execution, some fail with the same error.

Any ideas how I can fix this? Note, I installed cancan gem recently, maybe it has to do something with it?

Answer 1

Factory Girl is not what is supposed to be deleting the data, it’s usually RSpec (by way of the use_transactional_fixtures option) or another tool like database_cleaner.

If your test database is not being cleaned out correctly, then I would recommend using the database_cleaner.