Observers not firing in feature/integration tests using Capybara

[gregblass]

I'm using Capybara for integration testing. My observers work fine in my app and in my regular tests, but Capybara feature tests do not trigger any observers no matter what I try. Has anyone dealt with this or is this a known or intentional behavior?

I'm using the latest version of RSpec, Capybara (github masters) and Rails 5.0.0beta3.

[gregblass]

Ended up completely refactoring my entire app away from observers, days of work, just because I could not find a way around this. In some cases it actually made my code better because I was able to abstract it even further into concerns, but in other cases I still believe that observers make for better software engineering than model callbacks. I was sad to have to do it for those cases.

It seems that once observers were dropped from the core of Rails that the community has pretty much abandoned them - so I was forced to do so as well.

[mikecmpbll]

i'm experiencing this as well, since upgrading from rails 4.2 to 5.1. however, for me it's only intermittent. i'm updating the model in the test suite's setup; sometimes the observer fires and sometimes it doesn't (consistent amongst a single run of the suite though).