[Ruby] Using ActiveRecord outside Rails

[Ryan Davis]

On Oct 2, 2006, at 4:16 PM, Jeffrey Hulten wrote:

>  So I am trying to use ActiveRecord in a series of Rake tasks for  
> work and I
> am running into some issues.  When I run my script I get the  
> warnings below
> and then the script hangs.  It is hanging on a simple find(1).  Any  
> help
> would be appreciated.

First off, turn off the warnings. Rails sucks in that regard hands  
down. Second, please use a mailer that doesn't butcher your code  
pastes. Third, cut the unrelated crap out of your email so we can  
focus on the problem at hand. We haven't been working with this code  
as long as you have been.

> sulla:~/Projects/ASD/INF_0609R2 jeffh$ rake test:models
> (in /Users/jeffh/Projects/ASD/INF_0609R2)
> /usr/bin/ruby -w
> [snip]
> The model:
>
> require    'ar_connection'
> class Program < ActiveRecord::Base
>
>     has_many :branches
>
>     belongs_to :program_manager,
>         :class_name => 'Person',
>         :foreign_key => 'pm_id'
> end
>
>
> The connection file:
>
> require 'rubygems'
> require 'active_record'
>
> conn = ActiveRecord::Base.establish_connection(
>     :adapter => 'mysql',
>     :host => 'host.company.com',
>     :port => 3307,
>     :database => 'tools_dev',
>     :username => 'ME',
>     :password => 'MINE'
> )
>
> The model test:
>
> require 'test/unit'
> require 'program'
>
> class TestModelPrograms < Test::Unit::TestCase
>
>     def test_find
>         program = Program.find(1)
>         assert_equal('MAINT', program.short_name)
>     end
> end

The rest of this looks fine, once chopped up... what does the dev log  
show?