rspec users - Aug 2011 - How to stop Rspec loading my Cucumber fixtures

I have a bunch of fixtures designed to populate the database for my Cucumber 
integration tests.

But at this stage I want my database to be empty when using Rspec.

So, I moved the fixtures from `/spec/fixtures` to 
`features/support/fixtures`, and updated `features/support/env.rb` to read:

    Fixtures.reset_cache  
    fixtures_folder = File.join(RAILS_ROOT, ''features'',
''support'',
''fixtures'')
    fixtures = Dir[File.join(fixtures_folder, ''*.yml'')].map
{|f|
File.basename(f, ''.yml'') }
    Fixtures.create_fixtures(fixtures_folder, fixtures)

So far so good. Cucumber still loads the fixtures I moved as planned.

But Rspec is still loading them too! This is despite `spec/spec_helper.rb` 
saying:

      config.fixture_path = "#{::Rails.root}/spec/fixtures"

I have tried setting the following in `spec/spec_helper.rb`: 

      config.use_transactional_fixtures = false

However, it doesn''t work. And it wouldn''t be a long-term
solution anyway, as
I may need fixtures in Rspec in the future.

How can I fix this?

(Cross-posted from StackOverflow where there was no response.)
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On Aug 10, 2011, at 4:53 PM, steven_noble wrote:
> I have a bunch of fixtures designed to populate the database for my
Cucumber integration tests.
> 
> But at this stage I want my database to be empty when using Rspec.
> 
> So, I moved the fixtures from `/spec/fixtures` to
`features/support/fixtures`, and updated `features/support/env.rb` to read:
> 
>     Fixtures.reset_cache  
>     fixtures_folder = File.join(RAILS_ROOT, ''features'',
''support'', ''fixtures'')
>     fixtures = Dir[File.join(fixtures_folder,
''*.yml'')].map {|f| File.basename(f, ''.yml'')
}
>     Fixtures.create_fixtures(fixtures_folder, fixtures)
> 
> So far so good. Cucumber still loads the fixtures I moved as planned.
> 
> But Rspec is still loading them too! This is despite `spec/spec_helper.rb`
saying:
> 
>       config.fixture_path = "#{::Rails.root}/spec/fixtures"
> 
> I have tried setting the following in `spec/spec_helper.rb`: 
> 
>       config.use_transactional_fixtures = false
use_transactional_fixtures is a bit misleading: it''s a hook from Rails
that really means "run each example in a transaction." There is no way
to globally turn fixtures on or off - you either declare fixtures (in which case
the underlying framework will go look for them) or not (in which case it
won''t).
> However, it doesn''t work. And it wouldn''t be a long-term
solution anyway, as I may need fixtures in Rspec in the future.
> 
> How can I fix this?
How are you running rspec and cucumber?