Customize path for Capybara "show me the page" files
When you regularly make use of Cucumber's "show me the page" step (or let pages pop up as errors occur), the capybara-20120326132013.html files will clutter up your Rails root directory.
To tell Capybara where it should save those files instead, put this into features/support/env.rb:
Capybara.save_and_open_page_path = 'tmp/capybara'
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