I think the `testing_before_all: true` here is coincidentally going to save you from the issue that @rgarner had the other day: of innocuous-looking hits specs involving counts failing because the hits table is myISAM which doesn't support transactions, and therefore that table wasn't being cleaned properly between tests by the default strategy. Nothing to change here in this case, but it's worth more of us being aware of this issue :) In general, we should be using `truncate_everything: true` on specs affected by that.