Capybara + Poltergeist with DB Cleaner not finding FactoryGirl record

I am writing integration tests and creating records with FactoryGirl

. My controllers are throwing RecordNotFound

when the test has js: true

(using Poltergeist) even though they are in non-js test (no poltergeist).

I have use_transactional_fixtures

for false

and DatabaseCleaner.strategy

set to a value :truncation

that seems to cover every existing SO question on this issue. I tried replacing Selenium (from Firefox) with Poltergeist, but I get the same result. ETA I started a new Rails 4.2.3 project with RSpec-Rails 3.3.3, Capybara 2.4.4, Poltergeist 1.6.0, PhantomJS 1.9.8, Database Cleaner 1.4.1 and got the same results when testing a new, unedited forest.

Why are my notes not found by the Poltergeist? Any suggestions would be helpful as I've been at this for hours.

The first two tests pass until the last one is executed on the second line with RecordNotFound

:

require 'spec_helper'

before :each do
  @vehicle = FactoryGirl.create :vehicle
end

it "should work on vehicle path" do
  visit vehicle_path(@vehicle)
  expect(page).to have_content @vehicle.name
end

describe "with js", js: true do
  it "should work on root path" do
    visit root_path
    expect(page).to have_content "My Root"
  end

  it "should work on vehicle path" do
    expect(Vehicle.find(@vehicle.to_param)).to be_present # no error
    visit vehicle_path(@vehicle) # error: ActiveRecord::RecordNotFound in controller from Vehicle.find (same as above line)
    expect(page).to have_content @vehicle.name
  end
end

      

        
        
        
      

    

Here is my pared-down spec_helper.rb:

require 'rubygems'
ENV["RAILS_ENV"] ||= 'test'
require File.expand_path("../../config/environment", __FILE__)
require 'rspec/rails'
require 'factory_girl_rails'
require 'database_cleaner'
require 'capybara/rails'
require 'capybara/rspec'
require 'capybara/poltergeist' 

ActiveRecord::Migration.check_pending! if defined?(ActiveRecord::Migration)

Capybara.register_driver :poltergeist do |app|
  Capybara::Poltergeist::Driver.new app, window_size: [1600, 1200], js_errors: false
end

RSpec.configure do |config|
  config.use_transactional_fixtures = false
  config.order = "random"

  Capybara.javascript_driver = :poltergeist
  config.include Capybara::DSL

  config.before(:suite) do
    DatabaseCleaner.clean_with(:truncation) # moving to before :each doesn't help
    DatabaseCleaner.strategy = :truncation # moving to before :each doesn't help
  end

  config.around :each do |example| # refactoring as before/after with .start/.clean doesn't help
    DatabaseCleaner.cleaning { example.run }
  end
end