Making it so that the paper_trail initializer for the dummy app is in the dummy app's config/initializers directory so that it mimics the behavior of the rails app when the console is run against it.

test/dummy/config/initializers/paper_trail.rb

@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+class Version < ActiveRecord::Base
+  attr_accessible :created_at, :updated_at, :answer, :action, :question, :article_id, :ip, :user_agent, :title
+end

test/test_helper.rb

@@ -42,8 +42,3 @@ def change_schema
   end
   ActiveRecord::Migration.verbose = true
 end
-
-class Version < ActiveRecord::Base
-  attr_accessible :created_at, :updated_at,
-    :answer, :action, :question, :article_id, :ip, :user_agent, :title
-end