Capybara is not waiting for ajax to finish

Question

I'm working on a application which consist of a EmberJS frontend, which talk to a Rails server via REST. In my application goes through a wizard to create a job, so i would like to test if that job is created, this is my test.

  feature 'Processing step three', :js => true do
    background do
      to_step_2
      to_step_3
    end

    scenario 'Creating job', js: true do
      within '#login' do
        fill_in 'Email', with: @customer.email
        fill_in 'Password', with: @customer.password

        click_button 'Login'
      end

      expect { click_link 'Create job' }.to change(Job, :count).by(1)
    end
  end

So when the user has filled in everything, lastly they click on create job, just like my test describes. This works fine when i do it manually, but when i run my spec i get.

1) Creating a new job Processing step three Creating job
     Failure/Error: expect { click_link 'Create job' }.to change(Job, :count).by(1)
       count should have been changed by 1, but was changed by 0
     # ./spec/features/creating_a_new_job_spec.rb:103:in `block (3 levels) in '

Now if i look at my test log i can see, that capybara runs the count, before my job is inserted

Completed 200 OK in 36ms (Views: 6.0ms | ActiveRecord: 11.2ms)
Started POST "/api/jobs" for 127.0.0.1 at 2013-12-08 14:15:00 +0100
Processing by Api::JobsController#create as JSON
  Parameters: {"job"=>{"description"=>"This is a test description of the service i would like to receive.", "zip"=>"2400", "available_from"=>"24 - 12 - 2013", "available_next"=>false, "customer_id"=>"1", "service_id"=>"1", "service_field_id"=>"1"}}
Unpermitted parameters: zip
   (11.3ms)  SELECT COUNT(*) FROM "jobs"
   (1.2ms)  BEGIN
  SQL (2.5ms)  INSERT INTO "jobs" ("available_from", "available_next", "created_at", "customer_id", "description", "service_field_id", "service_id", "updated_at") VALUES ($1, $2, $3, $4, $5, $6, $7, $8) RETURNING "id"  [["available_from", Tue, 24 Dec 2013 00:00:00 UTC +00:00], ["available_next", false], ["created_at", Sun, 08 Dec 2013 13:15:00 UTC +00:00], ["customer_id", 1], ["description", "This is a test description of the service i would like to receive."], ["service_field_id", 1], ["service_id", 0], ["updated_at", Sun, 08 Dec 2013 13:15:00 UTC +00:00]]
   (0.5ms)  COMMIT

How do i force Capybara to hold the sails a bit?

Capybara is not waiting for ajax to finish

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