[LRUG] requiring one rails environment from another

[Tim Cowlishaw]

aah, that's useful, thanks! Have decided to go with an unchecked-in database.yml but will take note.

On 13 Apr 2010, at 00:47, Alex MacCaw wrote:

> You need to eval the production file with the current context, like so:
> 
>         config = configuration # Need local config variable
>         eval(IO.read(path), binding, path)
> 
> Alex
> 
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>> Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2010 17:07:44 +0100
>> From: Tim Cowlishaw <tim at timcowlishaw.co.uk>
>> To: LRUG LRUG <chat at lrug.org>
>> Subject: [LRUG] requiring one rails environment from another
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>> Hey there chaps,
>> 
>> I'm in the middle of setting up a CI server for our office and have run into what seems like a slight gotcha.
>> 
>> Basically, i need to set up a seperate rails environment called something like "CI", so that the CI server can have its own mysql credentials, rather than requiring all users to user the same. So, i set this up in database.yml, and create a ci.rb file in config/environments that contains only a "require File.dirname(__FILE__)+ '/test.rb'" to load in the regular test environment. However, as the code in the required file isn't evaled in the same context as where the 'require' happens - it fails with "undefined local variable or method `config' for main:Object" on the line "config.cache_classes = true", the first line in the required 'test.rb'.
>> 
>> Clearly I'm going about this the wrong way - has anyone else any bright ideas about allowing two distinct environments to share configuration, without resorting to putting it all in environment.rb?
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> 
>> Tim
>> 
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