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...ode in my unit tests to run as an admin user. This way I don''t have to grant unneeded privileges for my application user just so the unit tests will run. Does anyone understand the connection handling and how it changed enough to help? Thanks, Matt <snippet> def self.with old_connection = ActiveRecord::Base.connection ActiveRecord::Base.active_connections[ActiveRecord::Base] = connection yield ensure ActiveRecord::Base.active_connections[ActiveRecord::Base] = old_connection if old_connection end </snippet> ________________________________________...

Hello, I need to access an mirrored database with one read and one write cluster. Is there a way to tell a model to use two connections? So that all updates etc go to the write database and all read from the read one? This is a fixed set up I can not use MySQL 5.x stuff and additionally i get a token on write, which can be checked on read (and wait for replication) if new data is needed. I