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# In your test_helper.rb
class ActiveRecord::Base
mattr_accessor :shared_connection
@@shared_connection = nil
def self.connection
@@shared_connection || retrieve_connection
end
end
# Forces all threads to share the same connection. This works on
# Capybara because it starts the web server in a thread.
ActiveRecord::Base.shared_connection = ActiveRecord::Base.connection
@gnclmorais
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It’s 2019, do we still need this in Rails 5.2?

@nflorentin
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@gnclmorais, it seems that this is not useful anymore: https://github.com/teamcapybara/capybara#transactions-and-database-setup if you are running Rails 5.1 +.

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