Misleading documentation on use_transactional_fixtures behavior in RSpec

[aandrieu]

Hello.

In the RSpec documentation, it states that setting use_transactional_fixtures = true will "run every test method within a transaction." However, this seems to be misleading, as checking the ActiveRecord::Base.current_transaction.open? status during a test shows false, even though we are inside a transaction.

The documentation suggests that the transaction will be "visible" during tests, but this is not the case when checking current_transaction.open?. This behavior creates confusion for me, as it would be reasonable to assume that Rails is aware of the transaction in the context of the test, but current_transaction.open? indicates otherwise.

Is it something that should be clarified in the Transaction doc?

Thank you

[JonRowe]

The rspec-rails documentation makes no mention of visibility either way, but the Rails documentation does:

The method ActiveRecord::Base.current_transaction still acts as intended, though:

https://guides.rubyonrails.org/testing.html#transactions

[JonRowe]

I linked to the Rails docs in our docs for 8.0