Why does adding “sleep 1” in an after hook cause this Rspec/Capybara test to pass?

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I suspect that it’s possible in your application for the comment to disappear from the page (which is the last thing you’re asserting) before it’s deleted from the database. That means that the test can clean up before the deletion happens. If this is the case you can fix it by waiting for the actual deletion to happen at the end of the test. I have this method around (a reimplementation of a method that was removed from Capybara 2 but is still sometimes necessary)

def wait_until(delay = 1)
  seconds_waited = 0
  while ! yield && seconds_waited < Capybara.default_wait_time
    sleep delay
    seconds_waited += 1
  end
  raise "Waited for #{Capybara.default_wait_time} seconds but condition did not become true" unless yield
end

so I can do

wait_until { Comment.count == 0 }

in tests.

Another approach is to add Rack middleware that blocks requests made after the test ends. This approach is described in detail here: http://www.salsify.com/blog/tearing-capybara-ajax-tests I saw it do a very good job of addressing data leakage in a good-sized suite of RSpec feature specs.

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