individual spec passes when run alone, but fails when all specs are run

I have 30 specs in my foo_controller_spec.rb and when I run the entire file using spec, I get 4 failures and 2 pending. When I run the 4 failing specs individually, 3 of them still fail, but one of them passes. At first I thought it was a database issue, that the data wasn't being cleaned out properly between runs. So I installed database_cleaner (http://github.com/bmabey/database_cleaner) and added this code to my spec_helper:

config.before(:suite) do
  DatabaseCleaner.strategy = :truncation
  DatabaseCleaner.clean_with(:truncation)
end

config.before(:each) do
  DatabaseCleaner.start
  Sham.reset
  login
end

config.after(:each) do
  DatabaseCleaner.clean
end

Now when I run my specs I can see that the tables are truncated between each spec so I know it's working, but the spec still fails when run with all the other specs but passes when run alone. What am I missing here?

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individual spec passes when run alone, but fails when all specs are run

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