I know this won't work for *all* tests, but for now, this works. There must be a very good reason for default truncation for all @javascript. I keep having to add exceptions to the list (the next one would have been the users table), I we'll see how far this goes.

before-filters-for-cucumber-each-scenario-features-support-env.rb

Before('@no-txn,@selenium,@culerity,@celerity') do
  # I added this block and changed to transaction because @javascript was truncating most of my tables
  #DatabaseCleaner.strategy = :truncation, {:except => %w[groups]}
  DatabaseCleaner.strategy = :truncation
end

Before('@javascript') do
  #DatabaseCleaner.strategy = :truncation, {:except => %w[groups categories category_types content_types content_type_groups bcms_my401k_layouts]}
  DatabaseCleaner.strategy = :transaction
end