diff --git a/lib/database_cleaner/active_record/truncation.rb b/lib/database_cleaner/active_record/truncation.rb
index d4997de..3854565 100644
--- a/lib/database_cleaner/active_record/truncation.rb
+++ b/lib/database_cleaner/active_record/truncation.rb
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 
 module ActiveRecord
   module ConnectionAdapters
+    
     class MysqlAdapter
       def truncate_table(table_name)
         execute("TRUNCATE TABLE #{quote_table_name(table_name)};")
@@ -25,31 +26,12 @@ module ActiveRecord
       end
     end
 
-
   end
-
 end
 
 
 module DatabaseCleaner::ActiveRecord
-  class Truncation
-
-    def initialize(options={})
-      if !options.empty? && !(options.keys - [:only, :except]).empty?
-        raise ArgumentError, "The only valid options are :only and :except. You specified #{options.keys.join(',')}."
-      end
-      if options.has_key?(:only) && options.has_key?(:except)
-        raise ArgumentError, "You may only specify either :only or :either.  Doing both doesn't really make sense does it?" 
-      end
-
-      @only = options[:only]
-      @tables_to_exclude = (options[:except] || []) << 'schema_migrations'
-    end
-
-    def start
-      # no-op
-    end
-
+  class Truncation < ::DatabaseCleaner::TruncationBase
 
     def clean
       connection.disable_referential_integrity do
@@ -57,9 +39,9 @@ module DatabaseCleaner::ActiveRecord
           connection.truncate_table table_name
         end
       end
-  end
+    end
 
-  private
+    private
 
     def tables_to_truncate
       (@only || connection.tables) - @tables_to_exclude
@@ -68,9 +50,13 @@ module DatabaseCleaner::ActiveRecord
     def connection
       ::ActiveRecord::Base.connection
     end
+    
+    # overwritten
+    def migration_storage_name
+      'schema_migrations'
+    end
 
   end
-
 end
 
 
diff --git a/lib/database_cleaner/configuration.rb b/lib/database_cleaner/configuration.rb
index 8a8e668..95a3306 100644
--- a/lib/database_cleaner/configuration.rb
+++ b/lib/database_cleaner/configuration.rb
@@ -90,5 +90,48 @@ module DatabaseCleaner
     end
 
   end
+  
+  
+  # common base class for truncation strategies
+  
+  class TruncationBase
+    
+    def initialize(options = {})
+      if !options.empty? && !(options.keys - [:only, :except]).empty?
+        raise ArgumentError, "The only valid options are :only and :except. You specified #{options.keys.join(',')}."
+      end
+      if options.has_key?(:only) && options.has_key?(:except)
+        raise ArgumentError, "You may only specify either :only or :either.  Doing both doesn't really make sense does it?" 
+      end
+
+      @only = options[:only]
+      @tables_to_exclude = (options[:except] || [])
+      if migration_storage = migration_storage_name
+        @tables_to_exclude << migration_storage
+      end
+    end
+
+    def start
+      # no-op
+    end
+
+    def clean
+      raise NotImplementedError
+    end
+    
+
+    private
+
+    def tables_to_truncate
+      raise NotImplementedError
+    end
+    
+    # overwrite in subclasses
+    # default implementation given because migration storage need not be present
+    def migration_storage_name
+      nil
+    end
+    
+  end
 
 end
diff --git a/lib/database_cleaner/data_mapper/truncation.rb b/lib/database_cleaner/data_mapper/truncation.rb
index 39dcf50..b8014e5 100644
--- a/lib/database_cleaner/data_mapper/truncation.rb
+++ b/lib/database_cleaner/data_mapper/truncation.rb
@@ -110,30 +110,12 @@ module DataMapper
     end
 
   end
-  
 end
 
 
 module DatabaseCleaner::DataMapper
-  class Truncation
-
-    def initialize(options={})
-      if !options.empty? && !(options.keys - [:only, :except]).empty?
-        raise ArgumentError, "The only valid options are :only and :except. You specified #{options.keys.join(',')}."
-      end
-      if options.has_key?(:only) && options.has_key?(:except)
-        raise ArgumentError, "You may only specify either :only or :either.  Doing both doesn't really make sense does it?" 
-      end
-
-      @only = options[:only]
-      @tables_to_exclude = (options[:except] || []) << 'migration_info' # dm-migrations calls it like so
-    end
+  class Truncation < ::DatabaseCleaner::TruncationBase
     
-    
-    def start(repository = :default)
-      # no-op
-    end
-
     def clean(repository = :default)
       adapter = DataMapper.repository(repository).adapter
       adapter.disable_referential_integrity do
@@ -141,14 +123,18 @@ module DatabaseCleaner::DataMapper
           adapter.truncate_table table_name
         end
       end
-  end
-
-  private
-
+    end
+    
+    private
+    
     def tables_to_truncate(repository = :default)
       (@only || DataMapper.repository(repository).adapter.storage_names(repository)) - @tables_to_exclude
     end
-
+    
+    # overwritten
+    def migration_storage_name
+      'migration_info'
+    end
+    
   end
-
 end