diff --git a/activerecord/lib/active_record/railties/databases.rake b/activerecord/lib/active_record/railties/databases.rake
index 5024787c3cba7fc0b84c8d66b31103e26b3607fd..2c17c74ab4d634dbfc9f04e4cc0af9631a81d962 100644
--- a/activerecord/lib/active_record/railties/databases.rake
+++ b/activerecord/lib/active_record/railties/databases.rake
@@ -274,7 +274,7 @@ namespace :db do
   task :setup => [ 'db:create', 'db:schema:load', 'db:seed' ]
 
   desc 'Load the seed data from db/seeds.rb'
-  task :seed => :environment do
+  task :seed => 'db:abort_if_pending_migrations' do
     seed_file = File.join(Rails.root, 'db', 'seeds.rb')
     load(seed_file) if File.exist?(seed_file)
   end