diff --git a/spec/dummy/app/models/application_record.rb b/spec/dummy/app/models/application_record.rb
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..10a4cba
--- /dev/null
+++ b/spec/dummy/app/models/application_record.rb
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+class ApplicationRecord < ActiveRecord::Base
+  self.abstract_class = true
+end
diff --git a/spec/dummy/app/models/post.rb b/spec/dummy/app/models/post.rb
index 6cc74b1..59b1f95 100644
--- a/spec/dummy/app/models/post.rb
+++ b/spec/dummy/app/models/post.rb
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-class Post < ActiveRecord::Base
+class Post < ApplicationRecord
   # attr_accessible :title, :body
 end
diff --git a/spec/dummy/config/application.rb b/spec/dummy/config/application.rb
index d7452d9..f0e1fea 100644
--- a/spec/dummy/config/application.rb
+++ b/spec/dummy/config/application.rb
@@ -38,9 +38,6 @@ module Dummy
     # Configure the default encoding used in templates for Ruby 1.9.
     config.encoding = "utf-8"
 
-    # Configure sensitive parameters which will be filtered from the log file.
-    config.filter_parameters += [:password]
-
     # Enable escaping HTML in JSON.
     config.active_support.escape_html_entities_in_json = true
 
diff --git a/spec/dummy/config/initializers/filter_parameter_logging.rb b/spec/dummy/config/initializers/filter_parameter_logging.rb
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..4a994e1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/spec/dummy/config/initializers/filter_parameter_logging.rb
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+# Be sure to restart your server when you modify this file.
+
+# Configure sensitive parameters which will be filtered from the log file.
+Rails.application.config.filter_parameters += [:password]
diff --git a/spec/dummy/spec/models/application_spec.rb b/spec/dummy/spec/models/application_spec.rb
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..5fed74b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/spec/dummy/spec/models/application_spec.rb
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+require 'spec_helper'
+
+describe ApplicationRecord do
+  it { expect(described_class.superclass).to eq ActiveRecord::Base }
+
+  it { expect(described_class.abstract_class).to be_truthy }
+end
diff --git a/spec/dummy/spec/models/post_spec.rb b/spec/dummy/spec/models/post_spec.rb
index 8bdd192..2f48c93 100644
--- a/spec/dummy/spec/models/post_spec.rb
+++ b/spec/dummy/spec/models/post_spec.rb
@@ -3,4 +3,6 @@ require 'shared_examples/decoratable'
 
 describe Post do
   it_behaves_like "a decoratable model"
+
+  it { should be_a ApplicationRecord }
 end