title: Factory Girl create objects but objects not found in database
body: <p>I'm using cucumber with Factory Girl and here is the mysterious problem,</p>
  
  <p>in my cucumber steps :</p>
  
  <pre><code>fact = Factory.create(:fact,
                     :factable_type =&gt; "type_#{i}",
                     :factable_id =&gt; i.to_s,
                     :factable_action =&gt; "action_#{i}",
                     :priority =&gt; "1"
      )
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>When I check in debug mode with ruby mine I have a fact with an ID but if I check in my IRB test console :</p>
  
  <pre><code>ruby-1.9.2-p180 :011 &gt; Fact.all
   =&gt; [] 
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Of course when I want to run my tests and check presence of objects in the database, my tests fail because of that. Do you have any idea ?</p>
  
  <p>Here is my env.rb file :</p>
  
  <pre><code># IMPORTANT: This file is generated by cucumber-rails - edit at your own peril.
  # It is recommended to regenerate this file in the future when you upgrade to a 
  # newer version of cucumber-rails. Consider adding your own code to a new file 
  # instead of editing this one. Cucumber will automatically load all features/**/*.rb
  # files.
  
  require 'cucumber/rails'
  require 'fakeweb'
  require "factory_girl"
  
  # Add this to load Capybara integration:
  require 'capybara/rspec'
  require 'capybara/rails'
  
  require File.expand_path('../../../spec/vcr_setup.rb', __FILE__)
  require 'cucumber/rails'
  require 'cucumber/rspec/doubles'
  
  require 'email_spec'
  require 'email_spec/cucumber'
  
  # require 'cucumber/thinking_sphinx/external_world'
  # Cucumber::ThinkingSphinx::ExternalWorld.new
  
  # Capybara defaults to XPath selectors rather than Webrat's default of CSS3. In
  # order to ease the transition to Capybara we set the default here. If you'd
  # prefer to use XPath just remove this line and adjust any selectors in your
  # steps to use the XPath syntax.
  Capybara.default_selector = :css
  
  Capybara.run_server = true #Whether start server when testing
  Capybara.default_selector = :xpath #default selector , you can change to :css
  Capybara.default_wait_time = 2 #When we testing AJAX, we can set a default wait time
  Capybara.ignore_hidden_elements = false #Ignore hidden elements when testing, make helpful when you hide or show elements using javascript
  Capybara.javascript_driver = :culerity #default driver when you using @javascript tag
  
  # By default, any exception happening in your Rails application will bubble up
  # to Cucumber so that your scenario will fail. This is a different from how 
  # your application behaves in the production environment, where an error page will 
  # be rendered instead.
  #
  # Sometimes we want to override this default behaviour and allow Rails to rescue
  # exceptions and display an error page (just like when the app is running in production).
  # Typical scenarios where you want to do this is when you test your error pages.
  # There are two ways to allow Rails to rescue exceptions:
  #
  # 1) Tag your scenario (or feature) with @allow-rescue
  #
  # 2) Set the value below to true. Beware that doing this globally is not
  # recommended as it will mask a lot of errors for you!
  #
  ActionController::Base.allow_rescue = false
  
  # Remove/comment out the lines below if your app doesn't have a database.
  # For some databases (like MongoDB and CouchDB) you may need to use :truncation instead.
  #begin
  #  DatabaseCleaner.strategy = :transaction
  #rescue NameError
  #  raise "You need to add database_cleaner to your Gemfile (in the :test group) if you wish to use it."
  #end
  
  # You may also want to configure DatabaseCleaner to use different strategies for certain features and scenarios.
  # See the DatabaseCleaner documentation for details. Example:
  #
  #   Before('@no-txn,@selenium,@culerity,@celerity,@javascript') do
  #     DatabaseCleaner.strategy = :truncation, {:except =&gt; %w[widgets]}
  #   end
  #
  #   Before('~@no-txn', '~@selenium', '~@culerity', '~@celerity', '~@javascript') do
  #     DatabaseCleaner.strategy = :transaction
  #   end
  #
  
  ## Sets up the Rails environment for Cucumber
  ENV["RAILS_ENV"] = "test"
  require File.expand_path(File.dirname(__FILE__) + '/../../config/environment')
  require 'cucumber/rails/world'
  Cucumber::Rails::World.use_transactional_fixtures
  #
  ##Seed the DB
  
  Fixtures.reset_cache
  
  fixtures_to_load = ['facts','roles', 'user_types']
  
  fixtures_folder = File.join(Rails.root, 'features', 'fixtures')
  fixtures = Dir[File.join(fixtures_folder, '*.yml')].map {|f| File.basename(f, '.yml') }
  fixtures.delete_if { |fx| !fixtures_to_load.index(fx)}
  Fixtures.create_fixtures(fixtures_folder, fixtures)
  
  Before do
      Capybara.default_host = 'http://site.local'
  
    NetworkConfig.initialize(:id =&gt; 1)
  end
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>and in my factories.rb file :</p>
  
  <pre><code>require "factory_girl"
  
  Factory.define :fact do |i|
    i.factable_type "Follow"
    i.factable_id   "1"
    i.factable_action     "create"
    i.is_processed  "false"
    i.processing_has_started "false"
    i.processing_has_ended "false"
    i.priority "1"
  end
  </code></pre>