Hi all Apologies for cross-posting and spam in the same post. Hopefully you''ll let me off this once... I just released my first gem (woo!), database_resetter[1]. It''s designed to completely rebuild your Rails/Merb etc database before a Cucumber/RSpec every time a migration changes. Basically it prevents you seeing "unknown column" etc errors because you forgot to migrate the DB before a test run. It''s complementary to, not a replacement for, database_cleaner. database_resetter runs 0-1 times per Cucumber/RSpec run, whereas database_cleaner runs 0-1 times per Cucumber scenario / RSpec example. I''ve been using it for a year or two, but only just got round to packaging it up. It doesn''t do much, but over hundreds of database rebuilds the time savings add up to a fair bit. I''ve used it "untested"* until now, but I spent today putting some Cucumber features around it. They aren''t perfect, but they sanity check most of what it does. There''s a ReadMe in the gem with full instructions (they''re as good as I could manage after a long day). The official source is in a darcs repo hosted on Patch-Tag[2]. Feedback gratefully received - let me know if you find it useful, and please contact me with bug reports / feature requests. Like I say, this is my first gem, so I''m not expecting it to work well in the wild... Cheers Ash [1] http://rubygems.org/gems/database_resetter [2] https://patch-tag.com/r/ashleymoran/database_resetter/home * it works on my machine -- http://www.patchspace.co.uk/ http://www.linkedin.com/in/ashleymoran