How to reload rails fixtures into database during test running

Question

My legacy code is using DatabaseCleaner which wipes out database after each test being done. However it also wipes out loaded fixtures data and causes some tests which are using fixtures to fail, something like:

ActiveRecord::RecordNotFound Exception: Couldn't find Country with 'id'=593363170

To make them work together, how can I rewrite all fixtures back to database during test? (I mean not rake tasks)

Answer 1

Solution:

Set self.use_transactional_fixtures = false at the beginning of the file before which you want to reload fixtures.

Or use use_transactional_tests in Rails 5.

Do not set it in spec_helper as it applies globally so conflicts with DatabaseCleaner.