Thanks Jonathan for the example. I had been using an AR model for my
non-rails table. The piece I was missing was setting the table name!
So for others this is what I did
class Whatever < AR
self.establish_connection :whatever (non-rails DB defined in .yml)
self.set_table 'name of non-rails table
Jonathan Rochkind wrote:
> An AR model for a particular table, as you can see you can even use AR
> associations (to other tables within the same db! Trying to make
> associations cross-db tends not to work):
> http://umlaut.rubyforge.org/svn/trunk/app/models/sfx_db/object.rb
Heh, I also see re
Kim wrote:
> To clarify:
> Some of the data for my rails app is stored in a non-rails DB table. I
> need to query this other database and then show the data in the rails
> app.
I can only tell you what I did when I needed to do this. I did NOT use
find_by
_sql, I actually set up ActiveRecord clas
To clarify:
Some of the data for my rails app is stored in a non-rails DB table. I
need to query this other database and then show the data in the rails
app.
I have a model (have tried with abstract class and without) Computers
that is connected to the non-rails DB with establish_connection.
Then
On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 1:50 PM, Kim wrote:
> Well like I said, I am trying to figure out how to use an abstract
> class to access a separate database. I understand why calling the
> object attribute is not working, what I am looking for is the proper
> way to interact with the separate database.
Well like I said, I am trying to figure out how to use an abstract
class to access a separate database. I understand why calling the
object attribute is not working, what I am looking for is the proper
way to interact with the separate database. If an abstract class is
not the way, what is? If not
On May 18, 8:39 pm, Kim wrote:
> I am trying to figure out how to use an abstract class to access
> multiple databases. I can connect just fine using
> establish_connections in an abstract class, and I can query the
> database using find_by_sql on the abstract class. I am having problems
> with
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