ruby script outside of rails app

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Hello:

I would like to write a ruby script that runs on its own, but still take advantage of the ActiveRecord configured by the web app. Is there an easy way to do this?

Thanks in advance!

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Hi Phil,

you sure can. For offline tasks, I usually go with a rake task (http:// railscasts.com/episodes/127-rake-in-background) or writing a ruby script which is executed with ruby script/runner (this makes it similar to running script/console and typing the code yourself).

However if all you want is ActiveRecord and your db config you can do this:

require 'rubygems' require 'activerecord'

RAILS_ENV = (ENV["RAILS_ENV"] || "development") RAILS_ROOT = "/location/to/my/rails_app"

# If we don't have a db connection, then parse the yml file, and extract the db config for the relevant rails_env unless ActiveRecord::Base.connected?   db_options = YAML::load(File.read(File.join(RAILS_ROOT, "config", "database.yml")))   ActiveRecord::Base.establish_connection(db_options[RAILS_ENV]) end

You will also need to require any models you want explicitly too, if you go this route.

Cheers, Jeremy

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Awesome, exactly what I needed. Thank you!