diff --git a/activerecord/CHANGELOG b/activerecord/CHANGELOG
index 1aaaa96768..9374c487af 100644
--- a/activerecord/CHANGELOG
+++ b/activerecord/CHANGELOG
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 *SVN*
 
-* Added ActiveRecord::Base.schema_ignore_tables which tells SchemaDumper which tables to ignore. Useful for tables with funky column like the ones required for tsearch2. [TobiasLuetke]
+* Added ActiveRecord::SchemaDumper.ignore_tables which tells SchemaDumper which tables to ignore. Useful for tables with funky column like the ones required for tsearch2. [TobiasLuetke]
 
 * SchemaDumper now doesn't fail anymore when there are unknown column types in the schema. Instead the table is ignored and a Comment is left in the schema.rb. [TobiasLuetke]
 
diff --git a/activerecord/lib/active_record.rb b/activerecord/lib/active_record.rb
index 40ae8b8fd7..477ab24f1d 100755
--- a/activerecord/lib/active_record.rb
+++ b/activerecord/lib/active_record.rb
@@ -74,3 +74,4 @@ RAILS_CONNECTION_ADAPTERS.each do |adapter|
 end
 
 require 'active_record/query_cache'
+require 'active_record/schema_dumper'
diff --git a/activerecord/lib/active_record/base.rb b/activerecord/lib/active_record/base.rb
index 3beabda380..a08cd0f2df 100755
--- a/activerecord/lib/active_record/base.rb
+++ b/activerecord/lib/active_record/base.rb
@@ -332,12 +332,6 @@ module ActiveRecord #:nodoc:
     cattr_accessor :schema_format 
     @@schema_format = :sql
 
-    # A list of tables which should not be dumped to the schema. 
-    # Acceptable values are strings as well as regexp.
-    # This setting is only used if schema_format == :ruby
-    cattr_accessor :schema_ignore_tables 
-    @@schema_ignore_tables = []
-
     class << self # Class methods
       # Find operates with three different retrieval approaches:
       #
diff --git a/activerecord/lib/active_record/schema_dumper.rb b/activerecord/lib/active_record/schema_dumper.rb
index 4898bea203..fa45417153 100644
--- a/activerecord/lib/active_record/schema_dumper.rb
+++ b/activerecord/lib/active_record/schema_dumper.rb
@@ -4,6 +4,11 @@ module ActiveRecord
   class SchemaDumper #:nodoc:
     private_class_method :new
     
+    # A list of tables which should not be dumped to the schema. 
+    # Acceptable values are strings as well as regexp.
+    # This setting is only used if ActiveRecord::Base.schema_format == :ruby
+    cattr_accessor :ignore_tables 
+    @@ignore_tables = []
 
     def self.dump(connection=ActiveRecord::Base.connection, stream=STDOUT)
       new(connection).dump(stream)
@@ -44,12 +49,12 @@ HEADER
 
       def tables(stream)
         @connection.tables.sort.each do |tbl|
-          next if ["schema_info", Base.schema_ignore_tables].flatten.any? do |ignored|
+          next if ["schema_info", ignore_tables].flatten.any? do |ignored|
             case ignored
             when String: tbl == ignored
             when Regexp: tbl =~ ignored
             else
-              raise StandardError, 'ActiveRecord::Base.schema_ignore_tables accepts an array of String and / or Regexp values.'
+              raise StandardError, 'ActiveRecord::SchemaDumper.ignore_tables accepts an array of String and / or Regexp values.'
             end
           end 
           table(tbl, stream)
diff --git a/activerecord/test/schema_dumper_test.rb b/activerecord/test/schema_dumper_test.rb
index cc6a941554..242c5c5aa8 100644
--- a/activerecord/test/schema_dumper_test.rb
+++ b/activerecord/test/schema_dumper_test.rb
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ if ActiveRecord::Base.connection.respond_to?(:tables)
     def test_schema_dump_with_string_ignored_table
       stream = StringIO.new
       
-      ActiveRecord::Base.schema_ignore_tables = ['accounts']      
+      ActiveRecord::SchemaDumper.ignore_tables = ['accounts']      
       ActiveRecord::SchemaDumper.dump(ActiveRecord::Base.connection, stream)
       output = stream.string
       assert_no_match %r{create_table "accounts"}, output
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ if ActiveRecord::Base.connection.respond_to?(:tables)
     def test_schema_dump_with_regexp_ignored_table
       stream = StringIO.new
       
-      ActiveRecord::Base.schema_ignore_tables = [/^account/]      
+      ActiveRecord::SchemaDumper.ignore_tables = [/^account/]      
       ActiveRecord::SchemaDumper.dump(ActiveRecord::Base.connection, stream)
       output = stream.string
       assert_no_match %r{create_table "accounts"}, output
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ if ActiveRecord::Base.connection.respond_to?(:tables)
 
     def test_schema_dump_illegal_ignored_table_value
       stream = StringIO.new      
-      ActiveRecord::Base.schema_ignore_tables = [5]      
+      ActiveRecord::SchemaDumper.ignore_tables = [5]      
       assert_raise(StandardError) do
         ActiveRecord::SchemaDumper.dump(ActiveRecord::Base.connection, stream)
       end