No database connection in rails console

Question

My rails application works fine when I run rake db:migrate but the problem occurs when I try to start the rails console.

2.0.0p247 :003 > User
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Answer 1

To restore the behavior of ActiveRecord models displaying their column information immediately after the console has loaded, here is one workaround:

# config/application.rb
console do
  ActiveRecord::Base.connection
end