diff --git a/railties/CHANGELOG b/railties/CHANGELOG
index f981a8b5f1..b355e7ad70 100644
--- a/railties/CHANGELOG
+++ b/railties/CHANGELOG
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 *SVN*
 
-* SQLite: the clone_structure_to_test Rake task should always use the test environment.  #2846 [Rick Olson]
+* SQLite: the clone_structure_to_test and purge_test_database Rake tasks should always use the test environment.  #2846 [Rick Olson]
 
 * Make sure that legacy db tasks also reference :database for SQLite #2830 [kazuhiko@fdiary.net]
 
diff --git a/railties/lib/tasks/databases.rake b/railties/lib/tasks/databases.rake
index 7ec2c81914..752de7733d 100644
--- a/railties/lib/tasks/databases.rake
+++ b/railties/lib/tasks/databases.rake
@@ -107,7 +107,7 @@ task :purge_test_database => :environment do
       `dropdb -U "#{abcs["test"]["username"]}" #{abcs["test"]["database"]}`
       `createdb #{enc_option} -T template0 -U "#{abcs["test"]["username"]}" #{abcs["test"]["database"]}`
     when "sqlite","sqlite3"
-      dbfile = abcs[RAILS_ENV]["database"] || abcs[RAILS_ENV]["dbfile"]
+      dbfile = abcs["test"]["database"] || abcs["test"]["dbfile"]
       File.delete(dbfile) if File.exist?(dbfile)
     when "sqlserver"
       dropfkscript = "#{abcs["test"]["host"]}.#{abcs["test"]["database"]}.DP1".gsub(/\\/,'-')