Minitest helper file with spork, factory girl and database cleaner

minitest_helper.rb

# this is the minitest helper file i use for a rails project
# TODO: add capybara

require 'spork'

if Spork.using_spork?

  # make spork aware of changes in rails models

  ActiveSupport::Dependencies.clear
  ActiveRecord::Base.instantiate_observers

  Spork.prefork do
    ENV["RAILS_ENV"] = "test"
    require File.expand_path('../../config/environment', __FILE__)
    require "minitest/autorun"
    require "minitest/rails"
    require 'minitest/reporters'
    require 'database_cleaner'

    class MiniTest::Rails::ActiveSupport::TestCase
      fixtures :all
    end

    # for formatting of reports
    MiniTest::Reporters.use! MiniTest::Reporters::DefaultReporter.new

    # Database cleaner.
    # from: https://gist.github.com/raw/2257519/65ec4f11aee10e9e3fda8409c3ffd295ac0074f6/minitest_spec_setup.rb
    DatabaseCleaner.strategy = :truncation
    class MiniTest::Spec
      before :each do
        DatabaseCleaner.clean
      end
    end

  end

  Spork.each_run do
    
    
    FactoryGirl.reload

  end

end