diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index e4034a9d2..d7349de63 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -4,3 +4,5 @@ rvm:
 before_install:
   - sudo apt-get -qq update
   - sudo apt-get install -y curl git-core patch build-essential bison zlib1g-dev libssl-dev libxml2-dev libxml2-dev sqlite3 libsqlite3-dev autotools-dev libxslt1-dev libyaml-0-2 autoconf automake libreadline6-dev libyaml-dev libtool libgmp-dev libgdbm-dev libncurses5-dev pkg-config libffi-dev libmysqlclient-dev
+  - export RAILS_ENV=production
+  - cp /config/database.yml.dist /config/database.yml
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