I actually ran into this same use case a couple of months back and using class abstraction did the trick beautifully.
Sent from my iPhone > On Sep 29, 2015, at 7:23 AM, Walter Lee Davis <wa...@wdstudio.com> wrote: > > >> 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. >> >> -- >> Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk@googlegroups.com. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rubyonrails-talk/af0507fdd791af43902e56204e028af5%40ruby-forum.com. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rubyonrails-talk/099545A9-E6B4-443B-9041-37430D3A486C%40wdstudio.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rubyonrails-talk/0AE5D12E-CC4A-44D6-877C-92D18E3EE92F%40gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.