Too Many Specs Failing?

Could be that you simply need to clone the structure of your development database into your test database.

Clone Your Test Database

bundle exec rake db:test:clone

Notes

• The only specs that pass when the test database is not configured properly should be tests that don't reference the test database
• db:test:clone is just a combination of db:schema:dump and db:test:load
• db:test:load is the same as db:schema:load, but it runs against the test (not development) database