prevents loading 'default' DB in AR to guard against odd error messages #72

lib/database_cleaner/active_record/base.rb

@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ module DatabaseCleaner
     def self.available_strategies
       %w[truncation transaction deletion]
     end
-    
+
     def self.config_file_location=(path)
       @config_file_location = path
     end
@@ -32,9 +32,9 @@ module DatabaseCleaner
       end
 
       def load_config
-        if File.file?(ActiveRecord.config_file_location)
+        if self.db != :default && File.file?(ActiveRecord.config_file_location)
           connection_details   = YAML::load(ERB.new(IO.read(ActiveRecord.config_file_location)).result)
-          self.connection_hash = connection_details[self.db.to_s]
+          @connection_hash = connection_details[self.db.to_s]
         end
       end