Using Padrino, database not clearing after each example

explain.md

I was having a rough time making the test database use transactions when trying out Padrino recently. I added this line to my gemspec:

# Gemfile

group :test do
 # ... some gems
 gem 'database_cleaner'
 # ... some other gems
end

And then the following code to my spec_helper file and now the database runs transactionally as expected

spec_helper.rb

# in the RSpec.configure block:
 conf.around(:each) do |ex|                                                    
  DatabaseCleaner.start                                                       
  ex.run                                                                      
  DatabaseCleaner.clean                                                       
end                                                                           

Cheers!