diff --git a/examples/demo/src/app.rs b/examples/demo/src/app.rs
index b2ba52f48..6649c3223 100644
--- a/examples/demo/src/app.rs
+++ b/examples/demo/src/app.rs
@@ -42,8 +42,8 @@ impl Hooks for App {
     }
 
     // <snip id="app-initializers">
-    async fn initializers(ctx: &AppContext) -> Result<Vec<Box<dyn Initializer>>> {
-        let mut initializers: Vec<Box<dyn Initializer>> = vec![
+    async fn initializers(_ctx: &AppContext) -> Result<Vec<Box<dyn Initializer>>> {
+        let initializers: Vec<Box<dyn Initializer>> = vec![
             Box::new(initializers::axum_session::AxumSessionInitializer),
             Box::new(initializers::view_engine::ViewEngineInitializer),
             Box::new(initializers::hello_view_engine::HelloViewEngineInitializer),
diff --git a/examples/demo/tests/requests/notes.rs b/examples/demo/tests/requests/notes.rs
index 8b7352ef4..ec7ec2f83 100644
--- a/examples/demo/tests/requests/notes.rs
+++ b/examples/demo/tests/requests/notes.rs
@@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ use insta::{assert_debug_snapshot, with_settings};
 use loco_rs::testing;
 use rstest::rstest;
 use sea_orm::entity::prelude::*;
-use serde_json;
 use serial_test::serial;
 
 // TODO: see how to dedup / extract this to app-local test utils
@@ -34,7 +33,7 @@ async fn can_get_notes(#[case] test_name: &str, #[case] params: serde_json::Valu
 
         with_settings!({
             filters => {
-                 let mut combined_filters = testing::CLEANUP_DATE.to_vec();
+                 let mut combined_filters = testing::get_cleanup_date().clone();
                     combined_filters.extend(vec![(r#"\"id\\":\d+"#, r#""id\":ID"#)]);
                     combined_filters
             }
@@ -62,7 +61,7 @@ async fn can_add_note() {
 
         with_settings!({
             filters => {
-                 let mut combined_filters = testing::CLEANUP_DATE.to_vec();
+                 let mut combined_filters = testing::get_cleanup_date().clone();
                     combined_filters.extend(vec![(r#"\"id\\":\d+"#, r#""id\":ID"#)]);
                     combined_filters
             }
@@ -87,7 +86,7 @@ async fn can_get_note() {
 
         with_settings!({
             filters => {
-                 let mut combined_filters = testing::CLEANUP_DATE.to_vec();
+                 let mut combined_filters = testing::get_cleanup_date().clone();
                     combined_filters.extend(vec![(r#"\"id\\":\d+"#, r#""id\":ID"#)]);
                     combined_filters
             }
@@ -113,7 +112,7 @@ async fn can_delete_note() {
 
         with_settings!({
             filters => {
-                 let mut combined_filters = testing::CLEANUP_DATE.to_vec();
+                 let mut combined_filters = testing::get_cleanup_date().clone();
                     combined_filters.extend(vec![(r#"\"id\\":\d+"#, r#""id\":ID"#)]);
                     combined_filters
             }
diff --git a/src/testing.rs b/src/testing.rs
index 27fd8cfcf..46dce0093 100644
--- a/src/testing.rs
+++ b/src/testing.rs
@@ -17,12 +17,12 @@ use crate::{
     Result,
 };
 
-pub static CLEANUP_USER_MODEL: OnceLock<Vec<(&'static str, &'static str)>> = OnceLock::new();
-pub static CLEANUP_DATE: OnceLock<Vec<(&'static str, &'static str)>> = OnceLock::new();
-pub static CLEANUP_MODEL: OnceLock<Vec<(&'static str, &'static str)>> = OnceLock::new();
-pub static CLEANUP_MAIL: OnceLock<Vec<(&'static str, &'static str)>> = OnceLock::new();
+static CLEANUP_USER_MODEL: OnceLock<Vec<(&'static str, &'static str)>> = OnceLock::new();
+static CLEANUP_DATE: OnceLock<Vec<(&'static str, &'static str)>> = OnceLock::new();
+static CLEANUP_MODEL: OnceLock<Vec<(&'static str, &'static str)>> = OnceLock::new();
+static CLEANUP_MAIL: OnceLock<Vec<(&'static str, &'static str)>> = OnceLock::new();
 
-fn get_cleanup_user_model() -> &'static Vec<(&'static str, &'static str)> {
+pub fn get_cleanup_user_model() -> &'static Vec<(&'static str, &'static str)> {
     CLEANUP_USER_MODEL.get_or_init(|| {
         vec![
             (
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ fn get_cleanup_user_model() -> &'static Vec<(&'static str, &'static str)> {
     })
 }
 
-fn get_cleanup_date() -> &'static Vec<(&'static str, &'static str)> {
+pub fn get_cleanup_date() -> &'static Vec<(&'static str, &'static str)> {
     CLEANUP_DATE.get_or_init(|| {
         vec![
             (
@@ -48,11 +48,11 @@ fn get_cleanup_date() -> &'static Vec<(&'static str, &'static str)> {
     })
 }
 
-fn get_cleanup_model() -> &'static Vec<(&'static str, &'static str)> {
+pub fn get_cleanup_model() -> &'static Vec<(&'static str, &'static str)> {
     CLEANUP_MODEL.get_or_init(|| vec![(r"id: \d+,", "id: ID")])
 }
 
-fn get_cleanup_mail() -> &'static Vec<(&'static str, &'static str)> {
+pub fn get_cleanup_mail() -> &'static Vec<(&'static str, &'static str)> {
     CLEANUP_MAIL.get_or_init(|| {
         vec![
             (r"[0-9A-Za-z]+{40}", "IDENTIFIER"),