if you need to display complicated html in a javascript driven carousel, write your own,

jquery plugins tend to mess with your markup and force it into a specific layout
which can break your behaviour

acceptance vs. non acceptance rspec

When running regular rspec tests and acceptance test combined slow build time were observed,
breaking them out into different builds resulted in a 25% speed up
(combined 21 min, only rspec 5min, acceptance 10min)

• possible help: leave transactional_fixtures as true for acceptance
  supported by forcing one db connection as described here:

  http://blog.plataformatec.com.br/2011/12/three-tips-to-improve-the-performance-of-your-test-suite/

• reopening the rspec config block in the acceptance helper can have unintended side effects, if you are running
  units specs and acceptance specs together