If you run old versions of parallel_tests Show archive.org snapshot with more processes than you have Cucumber features, you will get errors like this in unexpected places:
This is a bug caused by multiple processes running the same features on the same database.
The bug is fixed in versions 0.6.18+ Show archive.org snapshot .
Checkout the card below to see how to set it up properly:
How to run your tests in parallel to speed up test execution
Turn transactional fixtures off -- database_cleaner will take care of this. See How to set up database_cleaner for Rails with Cucumber and RSpec.