diff --git a/spec/base_spec_helper.rb b/spec/base_spec_helper.rb
index b969b9af2b..4f06f874b0 100644
--- a/spec/base_spec_helper.rb
+++ b/spec/base_spec_helper.rb
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ require 'rspec/retry'
 require 'capybara'
 require 'paper_trail/frameworks/rspec'
 require "factory_bot_rails"
+require 'database_cleaner'
 
 require 'shoulda/matchers'
 Shoulda::Matchers.configure do |config|
diff --git a/spec/spec_helper.rb b/spec/spec_helper.rb
index ef36599bbe..3ec6ea3cf2 100644
--- a/spec/spec_helper.rb
+++ b/spec/spec_helper.rb
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 # frozen_string_literal: true
 
 require 'base_spec_helper'
-require 'database_cleaner'
 
 RSpec.configure do |config|
   # Fix encoding issue in Rails 5.0; allows passing empty arrays or hashes as params.