If you use rails_admin, your specs pass with the rspec binary, but not using rake spec (or rake parallel:spec etc), put this at the top of your spec_helper:

ENV['SKIP_RAILS_ADMIN_INITIALIZER'] = 'false'

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This is probably also true for cucumber, your env.rb would be the right place.