You might try ActiveRecord::Base.connection.execute "SELECT..."
Or, in a model file, which is where you probably should be doing this kind of thing, I guess it would just be connection.execute "(query)" See for more information: http://www.fngtps.com/2008/11/free-result-after-using-activerecord-base-connection-execute If you just need to do a join, though, you can pass the :join option to active record in whatever query you're doing. Jedrin wrote: > How can I do sql inside of rails where active record is not > involved ? I have done find_by_sql type things before, but they always > return an active record. There may be a need on this project to do a > more typical sql select that does a join etc. -- 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 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
