diff --git a/spec/resources/sqlite_patch.rb b/spec/resources/sqlite_patch.rb
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..df353b9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/spec/resources/sqlite_patch.rb
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+# patches adapter in rails 2.0 which mistakenly made time attributes map to datetime column type
+ActiveRecord::ConnectionAdapters::SQLiteAdapter.class_eval do
+  def native_database_types #:nodoc:
+    {
+      :primary_key => default_primary_key_type,
+      :string      => { :name => "varchar", :limit => 255 },
+      :text        => { :name => "text" },
+      :integer     => { :name => "integer" },
+      :float       => { :name => "float" },
+      :decimal     => { :name => "decimal" },
+      :datetime    => { :name => "datetime" },
+      :timestamp   => { :name => "datetime" },
+      :time        => { :name => "time" },
+      :date        => { :name => "date" },
+      :binary      => { :name => "blob" },
+      :boolean     => { :name => "boolean" }
+    }
+  end
+end
diff --git a/spec/spec_helper.rb b/spec/spec_helper.rb
index 57297aa..4425bea 100644
--- a/spec/spec_helper.rb
+++ b/spec/spec_helper.rb
@@ -45,31 +45,10 @@ if RAILS_VER >= '2.1'
   ActiveRecord::Base.time_zone_aware_attributes = true
 end
 
-
 ActiveRecord::Migration.verbose = false
 ActiveRecord::Base.establish_connection({:adapter => 'sqlite3', :database => ':memory:'})
 
-# patches adapter in rails 2.0 which mistakenly made time attributes map to datetime column typs
-if RAILS_VER < '2.1'
-  ActiveRecord::ConnectionAdapters::SQLiteAdapter.class_eval do
-    def native_database_types #:nodoc:
-      {
-        :primary_key => default_primary_key_type,
-        :string      => { :name => "varchar", :limit => 255 },
-        :text        => { :name => "text" },
-        :integer     => { :name => "integer" },
-        :float       => { :name => "float" },
-        :decimal     => { :name => "decimal" },
-        :datetime    => { :name => "datetime" },
-        :timestamp   => { :name => "datetime" },
-        :time        => { :name => "time" },
-        :date        => { :name => "date" },
-        :binary      => { :name => "blob" },
-        :boolean     => { :name => "boolean" }
-      }
-    end
-  end
-end
+require 'sqlite_patch' if RAILS_VER < '2.1'
 
 require 'schema'
 require 'person'