diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 76ad901..a742fcb 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -139,6 +139,10 @@ By default, sessions will be incinerated with a job 30 days after they are creat
 
 When starting a console session, `console1984` will eager load all the application classes if necessary. In practice, production environments already load classes eagerly, so this won't represent any change for those.  
 
+## `rails console --sandbox`
+
+`console1984` will disable the Rails sandbox console, becuase it's not able to record sessions while in sandbox mode.
+
 ## Configuration
 
 These config options are namespaced in `config.console1984`:
diff --git a/lib/console1984/engine.rb b/lib/console1984/engine.rb
index da99444..9af549e 100644
--- a/lib/console1984/engine.rb
+++ b/lib/console1984/engine.rb
@@ -8,6 +8,13 @@ class Engine < ::Rails::Engine
     config.console1984.protected_environments ||= %i[ production ]
     config.console1984.protected_urls ||= []
 
+    # Console 1984 doesn't work with the sandboxed Rails console, becuase
+    # it can't write its audit entries to the database. Unless you've explicitly
+    # said so, we disable the sandboxed console to prevent this issue.
+    initializer "console1984.disable_sandbox" do |app|
+      app.config.disable_sandbox = true
+    end
+
     initializer "console1984.config" do
       config.console1984.each do |key, value|
         Console1984.config.send("#{key}=", value)