Capybara can't find database records during feature specs
You may have config.use_transactional_fixtures = true set in your spec_helper.rb. This would override what you have above.
You want to either remove this line from your spec_helper.rb or change it there to be false.
I ran into this same issue and had a very similar config. After looking through the DatabaseCleaner README, I found this small note:
It's also recommended to use
append_afterto ensureDatabaseCleaner.cleanruns after the after-test cleanup capybara/rspec installs.
That means changing your
config.after(:each) do DatabaseCleaner.cleanendto
config.append_after(:each) do DatabaseCleaner.cleanendNote the append_after instead of after. This fixed my problem.
Working on legacy project I have had such issue, it was caused by switching DatabaseCleaner strategy to :truncation like the following:
config.before(:suite) do DatabaseCleaner.strategy = :truncation DatabaseCleaner.clean Test::Seeder.seed! DatabaseCleaner.strategy = :transactionendso, removing DatabaseCleaner.strategy = :transaction helped in my case