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...want to find out what column names exist in two tables, table_a and table_b. One way I''ve been doing this is using ActiveRecord and the column info it returns. After establishing a connection for ActiveRecord, I do the following: ActiveRecord::Base.set_table_name("table_a") column_names_a = ActiveRecord::Base.column_names ActiveRecord::Base.set_table_name("table_b") column_names_b = ActiveRecord::Base.column_names The problem I have is that once I set the table_name to ''table_a'', ActiveRecord always returns table_a''s column info. I''ve...