diff --git a/lib/database_cleaner/active_record/truncation.rb b/lib/database_cleaner/active_record/truncation.rb
index 2bb43d95..2f332948 100644
--- a/lib/database_cleaner/active_record/truncation.rb
+++ b/lib/database_cleaner/active_record/truncation.rb
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
 require "delegate"
-require 'active_record/base'
 require 'database_cleaner/active_record/base'
 
 module DatabaseCleaner