diff --git a/.rspec b/.rspec
index 4e1e0d2..1bc9984 100644
--- a/.rspec
+++ b/.rspec
@@ -1 +1,2 @@
 --color
+--format=d
diff --git a/spec/kaminari_spec.rb b/spec/kaminari_spec.rb
deleted file mode 100644
index dd532a4..0000000
--- a/spec/kaminari_spec.rb
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,7 +0,0 @@
-require File.expand_path(File.dirname(__FILE__) + '/spec_helper')
-
-describe "Kaminari" do
-  it "fails" do
-    fail "hey buddy, you should probably rename this file and start specing for real"
-  end
-end
diff --git a/spec/spec_helper.rb b/spec/spec_helper.rb
index 3e6d989..81b49fb 100644
--- a/spec/spec_helper.rb
+++ b/spec/spec_helper.rb
@@ -1,12 +1,37 @@
 $LOAD_PATH.unshift(File.join(File.dirname(__FILE__), '..', 'lib'))
 $LOAD_PATH.unshift(File.dirname(__FILE__))
-require 'rspec'
+require 'active_support/all'
+require 'active_record'
+require 'rails'
+require 'action_controller/railtie'
+require 'action_view/railtie'
+require 'rspec/rails'
+
+ActiveRecord::Base.configurations = {'test' => {:adapter => 'sqlite3', :database => ':memory:'}}
+ActiveRecord::Base.establish_connection('test')
+
 require 'kaminari'
 
+app = Class.new(Rails::Application)
+app.config.secret_token = "3b7cd727ee24e8444053437c36cc66c4"
+app.config.session_store :cookie_store, :key => "_myapp_session"
+app.config.active_support.deprecation = :log
+app.initialize!
+
+app.routes.draw do
+  resources :users
+end
+
+Object.const_set(:ApplicationHelper, Module.new)
+
 # Requires supporting files with custom matchers and macros, etc,
 # in ./support/ and its subdirectories.
 Dir["#{File.dirname(__FILE__)}/support/**/*.rb"].each {|f| require f}
 
 RSpec.configure do |config|
-  
+  config.mock_with :rr
+  config.before :all do
+#     ActiveRecord::Base.connection.execute 'CREATE TABLE "users" ("id" INTEGER PRIMARY KEY AUTOINCREMENT NOT NULL, "name" varchar(255))' unless ActiveRecord::Base.connection.table_exists? 'users'
+    CreateUsers.up unless ActiveRecord::Base.connection.table_exists? 'users'
+  end
 end
diff --git a/spec/support/20110128122508_create_users.rb b/spec/support/20110128122508_create_users.rb
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..478491d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/spec/support/20110128122508_create_users.rb
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+class CreateUsers < ActiveRecord::Migration
+  def self.up
+    create_table :users do |t|
+      t.string :name
+      t.timestamps
+    end
+  end
+end
diff --git a/spec/support/user.rb b/spec/support/user.rb
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..019c601
--- /dev/null
+++ b/spec/support/user.rb
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+class User < ActiveRecord::Base
+  default_scope order('name')
+end