I actually ran into this same use case a couple of months back and using class 
abstraction did the trick beautifully. 

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> On Sep 29, 2015, at 7:23 AM, Walter Lee Davis <wa...@wdstudio.com> wrote:
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> 
>> On Sep 29, 2015, at 5:04 AM, Quake Live <li...@ruby-forum.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi there,
>> 
>> is it somehow possible to connect from a running Rails4-app to another
>> database?
> 
> Yes, I have done this in the past for migration reasons. You can create a 
> different connection "long-hand" and get a specific model to use it. The last 
> answer on this page (sadly zero-rated) has the solution I used. 
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12379730/query-remote-database-from-rails-3-2-application
> 
> Walter
> 
>> 
>> My problem is that I have to transfer records from a table from the main
>> database to a different database.
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