The problem occurred because asset compilation takes a long time, so
when the asset cache didn't exist and the first test ran, it would often
(randomly) time out during the generation before the actual test even
had a chance to run.

Now we check if the cache exists before the suite runs, and if not, we
manually fire a request to the root URL in order to generate it. This
should allow subsequent tests to use the cached assets.

This also increases capybara timeout to 15 seconds (note polling
interval). Capybara will look for new note for this period of time.