Rspec and Cucumber run in parallels with Spork

command to create cucumber database

RAILS_ENV=cucumber rake db:drop db:create db:schema:load db:migrate

cucumber.rb

#config/environments/cucumber.rb

#this is a copy of config/environments/test.rb

HotelManagement::Application.configure do
  # Settings specified here will take precedence over those in config/application.rb

  # The test environment is used exclusively to run your application's
  # test suite.  You never need to work with it otherwise.  Remember that
  # your test database is "scratch space" for the test suite and is wiped
  # and recreated between test runs.  Don't rely on the data there!
  config.cache_classes = true

  # Configure static asset server for tests with Cache-Control for performance
  config.serve_static_assets = true
  config.static_cache_control = "public, max-age=3600"

  # Log error messages when you accidentally call methods on nil
  config.whiny_nils = true

  # Show full error reports and disable caching
  config.consider_all_requests_local       = true
  config.action_controller.perform_caching = false

  # Raise exceptions instead of rendering exception templates
  config.action_dispatch.show_exceptions = false

  # Disable request forgery protection in test environment
  config.action_controller.allow_forgery_protection    = false

  # Tell Action Mailer not to deliver emails to the real world.
  # The :test delivery method accumulates sent emails in the
  # ActionMailer::Base.deliveries array.
  config.action_mailer.delivery_method = :test

  # Use SQL instead of Active Record's schema dumper when creating the test database.
  # This is necessary if your schema can't be completely dumped by the schema dumper,
  # like if you have constraints or database-specific column types
  # config.active_record.schema_format = :sql

  # Print deprecation notices to the stderr
  config.active_support.deprecation = :stderr
end

database.yml

connection: &conn
  adapter: mysql2
  encoding: utf8
  reconnect: false
  pool: 5
  username: root
  password:

development:
  <<: *conn
  database: development

test:
  <<: *conn
  database: test

production:
  <<: *conn
  database: production

cucumber:
  <<: *conn
  database: cucumber

env.rb

#features/support/env.rb

#define the environment as cucumber
require 'rubygems'
require 'spork'

Spork.prefork do
  ENV["RAILS_ENV"] ||= 'cucumber'

  require 'cucumber/rails'
  require 'cucumber/rails/world'
  Rails.env = 'cucumber'
end

Spork.each_run do
end

gistfile1.txt

Then you can run rspec and cucumber at the same time, speed up the testing process.