diff --git a/activerecord/lib/active_record/railties/databases.rake b/activerecord/lib/active_record/railties/databases.rake
index 4d9acc911b4e12ddd011775c6b15f3d752c98cd1..d699e2e21b8f91423f13b15782c98f6deeef0be6 100644
--- a/activerecord/lib/active_record/railties/databases.rake
+++ b/activerecord/lib/active_record/railties/databases.rake
@@ -265,6 +265,8 @@ db_namespace = namespace :db do
       end
       abort %{Run `rails db:migrate` to update your database then try again.}
     end
+  ensure
+    ActiveRecord::Base.establish_connection(ActiveRecord::Tasks::DatabaseTasks.env.to_sym)
   end
 
   namespace :abort_if_pending_migrations do
diff --git a/railties/test/application/rake/multi_dbs_test.rb b/railties/test/application/rake/multi_dbs_test.rb
index 2606e64424389ff5ee40294c83e83f34dd42356c..c5f8904f4e12a509f64e309312709816841f497b 100644
--- a/railties/test/application/rake/multi_dbs_test.rb
+++ b/railties/test/application/rake/multi_dbs_test.rb
@@ -349,6 +349,25 @@ class TwoMigration < ActiveRecord::Migration::Current
           rails "db:drop" rescue nil
         end
       end
+
+      test "db:seed uses primary database connection" do
+        @old_rails_env = ENV["RAILS_ENV"]
+        @old_rack_env = ENV["RACK_ENV"]
+        ENV.delete "RAILS_ENV"
+        ENV.delete "RACK_ENV"
+
+        db_migrate_and_schema_dump_and_load "schema"
+
+        app_file "db/seeds.rb", <<-RUBY
+          print Book.connection.pool.spec.config[:database]
+        RUBY
+
+        output = rails("db:seed")
+        assert_equal output, "db/development.sqlite3"
+      ensure
+        ENV["RAILS_ENV"] = @old_rails_env
+        ENV["RACK_ENV"] = @old_rack_env
+      end
     end
   end
 end