How to get database.yml configuration to use it in a rake taks

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Hello,

    I want to get the production environment configuration from the database.yml in the /shared folder of a deployed rails application. I could use scp to get the file, write it to temporary file, read it and open it with YAML, but is there a better way to do this?

    Best regards,

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You can get at the configurations with ActiveRecord::Base.configurations, which is a hash where each key is the environment name and which maps to a hash of the configuration options (i.e. hostname, port, username, password, etc.)

V/r Anthony EDen