access to database.yaml elements

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I'd like to be able to display which db is the active db as I have a couple of development databases that I switch between, and I'd like the interface to remind me which one I'm dealing with by displaying some of.

Can someone point me somewhere where I can have it show me the name of the database that's being accessed?

Thanks,

-Al

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I'd like to be able to display which db is the active db as I have a couple of development databases that I switch between, and I'd like the interface to remind me which one I'm dealing with by displaying some of.

Can someone point me somewhere where I can have it show me the name of the database that's being accessed?

I can't, but here's the code we use to read our 'site.yml' file (for local config stuff) that follows the exact same format as database.yml...

SITE_YAML = YAML::load(ERB.new(IO.read("#{RAILS_ROOT}/config/site.yml"), nil, '-').result) SITE_YAML_ENV = SITE_YAML[RAILS_ENV]

So assuming you switched that over to database.yml then you could spit out

SITE_YAML_ENV['database']

and you'd have your current database...

-philip