Using Rails Migration on different database than standard “production” or “development”

Question

I have a rails project running that defines the standard production:, :development and :test DB-connections in config/database.yml

In addition I have a quiz_developm

Answer 1

You could use this version, which also supports rake db:rollback:

class ChangeQuiz < ActiveRecord::Migration
  def connection
    ActiveRecord::Base.establish_connection("quiz_#{Rails.env}").connection
  end

  def reset_connection
    ActiveRecord::Base.establish_connection(Rails.env)
  end

  def up
    # make changes

    reset_connection
  end

  def self.down
    # reverse changes

    reset_connection
  end
end

Answer 2

You should define the other databases/environments in /config/environments.

After that you can use the following command to migrate that specific environment.

rake db:migrate RAILS_ENV=customenvironment

Answer 3

class Article < ActiveRecord::Base

    ActiveRecord::Base.establish_connection(
      :adapter  => "mysql2",
      :host     => "localhost",
      :username => "root",
      :database => "test"
    )
end

And:

class Artic < Aritcle
    self.table_name = 'test'

    def self.get_test_name()
        query = "select name from testing"
        tst = connection.select_all(query) #select_all is important!
        tst[0].fetch('name')
    end
end

You can call Artic.get_test_name in order to execute.

Answer 4

Have you tried using quiz_development as a RAILS_ENV (instead of trying to get it to use "quiz_#{RAILS_ENV}")?

RAILS_ENV=quiz_development rake db:migrate

Answer 5

I got this to work with the following code.

class AddInProgressToRefHighLevelStatuses < ActiveRecord::Migration
  def connection
    @connection = ActiveRecord::Base.establish_connection("sdmstore_#{Rails.env}").connection
  end

  def change
    add_column :ref_high_level_statuses, :is_in_progress, :boolean, :default => true

    @connection = ActiveRecord::Base.establish_connection("#{Rails.env}").connection
  end
end

It was necessary to set the connection back to get it to write the migration to the schema_migrations table so rake would not try to re-run the migration the next time. This assumes that you want the schema_migrations table in the default database configuration to keep track of the migrations checked into version control for the corresponding project.

I was unable to get the down migration to work.

Answer 6

For example, I have a study_history model:

rails g model study_history lesson:references user:references history_type:references

1. Define mysql section in database.yml

player_records:
  adapter: mysql2
  encoding: utf8
  host: 1.2.3.4
  username: root
  password: 
  timeout: 5000
  pool: <%= ENV.fetch("RAILS_MAX_THREADS") { 20 } %>
  database: player_records

2. Modify the StudyHistory model, add establish_connect, it will connect your mysql database player_records above (I added this database in mysql server first):

class StudyHistory < ApplicationRecord
  establish_connection :player_records
  
  belongs_to :lesson
  belongs_to :user
  belongs_to :history_type
end

3. Use connection in the migration file to create table:

class CreateStudyHistories < ActiveRecord::Migration[6.0]
  def change
    StudyHistory.connection.create_table :study_histories do |t|
      t.references :lesson, null: false
      t.references :user, null: false
      t.references :history_type, null: false

      t.timestamps
    end
  end
end

now, you can run

rails db:migrate

That's it, I tested in rails 6, it works like a charm, you can get your data from different databases combined( local sqlite3 and remote mysql).

irb(main):029:0> StudyHistory.first.lesson
   (42.5ms)  SET NAMES utf8,  @@SESSION.sql_mode = CONCAT(CONCAT(@@sql_mode, ',STRICT_ALL_TABLES'), ',NO_AUTO_VALUE_ON_Z
ERO'),  @@SESSION.sql_auto_is_null = 0, @@SESSION.wait_timeout = 2147483
  StudyHistory Load (30.0ms)  SELECT `study_histories`.* FROM `study_histories` ORDER BY `study_histories`.`id` ASC LIMIT 1
   (0.0ms)  
 SELECT sqlite_version(*)
  Lesson Load (0.1ms)  SELECT "lessons".* FROM "lessons" WHERE "lessons"."id" = ? LIMIT ?  [["id", 1], ["LIMIT", 1]]
=> #<Lesson id: 1, title: "people", cn: nil, description: nil, version: nil, course_id: 1, created_at: "2020-03-01 23:57
:02", updated_at: "2020-05-08 09:57:40", level: "aa", ready: false, pictureurl: "/pictures/kiss^boy and girl^boy^girl.jp
g">