Hi Phil, you sure can. For offline tasks, I usually go with a rake task (http:// railscasts.com/episodes/127-rake-in-background) or writing a ruby script which is executed with ruby script/runner (this makes it similar to running script/console and typing the code yourself).
However if all you want is ActiveRecord and your db config you can do this: require 'rubygems' require 'activerecord' RAILS_ENV = (ENV["RAILS_ENV"] || "development") RAILS_ROOT = "/location/to/my/rails_app" # If we don't have a db connection, then parse the yml file, and extract the db config for the relevant rails_env unless ActiveRecord::Base.connected? db_options = YAML::load(File.read(File.join(RAILS_ROOT, "config", "database.yml"))) ActiveRecord::Base.establish_connection(db_options[RAILS_ENV]) end You will also need to require any models you want explicitly too, if you go this route. Cheers, Jeremy On May 13, 1:49 pm, phillee <philip.a....@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello: > > I would like to write a ruby script that runs on its own, but still > take advantage of the ActiveRecord configured by the web app. Is there > an easy way to do this? > > Thanks in advance! --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
