From: Jeremy Kemper <jeremy@...>
Date: 2006-10-14T14:43:23+09:00
Subject: Re: Basic ActiveRecord Usage

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On 10/13/06, jotto <jonathan.otto@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I want to run a Ruby script outside of Rails and still use Active
> Record. This is what I'm trying but I am getting a "const_missing"
> error - do I need to reference the connection in the printlisting
> method?:
>
> require 'rubygems'
> require 'active_record'
>
> class TheMode < ActiveRecord::Base
>   def initialize
>   end
>
> def printlisting
>   ActiveRecord::Base.establish_connection(:adapter => "mysql", :host =>
> "localhost", :username => "root", :password => "root", :database =>
> "commentstable")
>   listing = Comment.find(:all)
>   puts listing.text
> end
>
> temp = TheMode.new
> temp.modemaker



require 'comment'

Rails autoloads constants in lib, app/models, etc. When you use Active
Record on its own, you need to handle that yourself.

Best,
jeremy

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