diff --git a/lib/tasks/db.rake b/lib/tasks/db.rake
index 3683144db..9731a23ef 100644
--- a/lib/tasks/db.rake
+++ b/lib/tasks/db.rake
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 namespace :db do
   desc "Resets the database and loads it from db/dev_seeds.rb"
-  task :dev_seed do
+  task dev_seed: :environment do
     load(Rails.root.join("db", "dev_seeds.rb"))
   end
 end