Jun 04

ActiveRecord outside of Rails

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So you want to use ActiveRecord outside of the Rails framework? It’s not hard to do. Firstly make sure you have active record installed, which you can do by executing:

gem install activerecord

Then, the code below is all you need to get started (with an example DAO – DvdTitle at the end)

require "rubygems"
require 'active_record'

ActiveRecord::Base.establish_connection(
  :adapter => "mysql",
  :host => "127.0.0.1",
  :username => "username",
  :database => "dvdsale_development",
  :password => "secret")

class DvdTitle < ActiveRecord::Base
end

puts DvdTitle.find(1).name

My environment:

Ruby version 1.8.6 (i386-mswin32)
RubyGems version 1.3.3
Rails version 2.2.2
Active Record version 2.2.2

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