diff --git a/test/acts_as_url/adapter/active_record.rb b/test/acts_as_url/adapter/active_record.rb
index 65c92932..3fe3a981 100644
--- a/test/acts_as_url/adapter/active_record.rb
+++ b/test/acts_as_url/adapter/active_record.rb
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
 puts "Running ActsAsUrl tests with ActiveRecord adapter"
 puts "-------------------------------------------------"
 
-ActiveRecord::Base.establish_connection(:adapter => "sqlite3", :database => "acts_as_url.sqlite3")
+ActiveRecord::Base.establish_connection(:adapter => "sqlite3", :database => ":memory:")
 
 ActiveRecord::Migration.verbose = false
 ActiveRecord::Schema.define do