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    ActiveRecord without Rails

I wanted to load models from a Rails app in a background worker. First attempt
was to require_relative "../config/environment", which brings in the whole
app. This works fine, but is quite slow.
I get easily annoyed and frustrated with slow software, so I wanted to find a
way to load the models I needed, without pulling in the whole app. The approach
here is where I landed.

  
## database.rb
require "active_record"
require "erb"
require "yaml"

unless ActiveRecord::Base.connected?
  env = ENV.fetch("RAILS_ENV", "development")
  raw_config = ERB.new(File.read("config/database.yml")).result
  db_config = YAML.load(raw_config).fetch(env)

  ActiveRecord::Base.establish_connection(db_config)
end

require_relative "../app/models/application_record"

# require the models you need and use them
	require "active_record"
	require "erb"
	require "yaml"

	unless ActiveRecord::Base.connected?
	env = ENV.fetch("RAILS_ENV", "development")
	raw_config = ERB.new(File.read("config/database.yml")).result
	db_config = YAML.load(raw_config).fetch(env)

	ActiveRecord::Base.establish_connection(db_config)
	end

	require_relative "../app/models/application_record"

	# require the models you need and use them