ActiveRecord middleware should be inserted before ActionDispatch::Cascade ?

Using rails 3 beta 3. I have a piece of metal code, and I think it's fair to assume that most users will use some ActiveRecord code in there to retrieve some data.

However, the metal code is run before the middleware ActiveRecord::ConnectionAdapters::ConnectionManagement. I.e., when something fails in the metal code, then the AR connection manager will not get the chance to do: ActiveRecord::Base.clear_active_connections!

I have a few other use cases where I find it would be more useful if middleware ActionDispatch::Cascade was sitting just before MyApp::Application.routes and after ActiveRecord::QueryCache and any other user defined middlewares.