title: ActiveRecord dependency with Ruby, Rails, Cucumber, & RSpec
body: <p>We are writing a Rails application that is using CouchDB as its data store.  We're BDD/TDD'ing with RSpec and Cucumber, which is using WebRat for webpage testing</p>
  
  <p>I'm trying to remove ActiveRecord as one of the resources that is being loaded by rails but its causing the cucumber tests to fail.  I've removed all references that I can find (fixtures, environment files, etc...) but it still fails without it.</p>
  
  <p>Has anyone seen this?  The application runs fine without, but the test don't.</p>
  
  <p><strong>edit</strong></p>
  
  <p>I did remove the framework in env file, I also removed all the transactional fixture code.  We're using the latest version of rspec and rspec-rails.</p>