jsuchy-20070220-0.txt

Blog Title:  Sharing a Database Among Multiple Rails Applications
Author:      Jim Suchy
Date:        February 20th, 2007

jsuchy-20070220-1.sh

/projects/my_lib
--> lib
--> spec

jsuchy-20070220-2.rb

$: << File.dirname(__FILE__) + '/your_lib_path'

jsuchy-20070220-3.rb

require 'rubygems'
require 'active_record'

ActiveRecord::Base.establish_connection(
  :adapter  => "postgresql",
  :host     => "localhost",
  :username => "rails",
  :password => "",
  :database => "<db name>_test"
)

jsuchy-20070220-4.rb

require File.expand_path(File.dirname(__FILE__) + '/my_lib/lib/file_a'
require File.expand_path(File.dirname(__FILE__) + '/my_lib/lib/file_b'
require File.expand_path(File.dirname(__FILE__) + '/my_lib/lib/file_c'
require File.expand_path(File.dirname(__FILE__) + '/my_lib/lib/file_d'
require File.expand_path(File.dirname(__FILE__) + '/my_lib/lib/file_e'