Different DB connections for migrations vs. running app

Rails
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All,

I’ve run into a situation where I want the owner of my DB tables to be
different than the user that accesses them during application runtime.

I believe that I can just set up another DB connection profile (with a
name other than “production”) in database.yml and then pass that as
RAILS_ENV to db:migrate instead of “production”.

Anyone see any problems with this?

Yay - deployment issues.

Wes

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This seems to work. I did the following:

Set up a new DB profile named prod_migrate that was only different than
the existing production profile because of username/password.

Copied the config/environments/production.rb file to
config/environments/prod_migrate.rb

and I was able to migrate into production using:

rake db:migrate RAILS_ENV=prod_migrate

I’m under the impression that the config/environments/xxx.rb file is
necessary in case you’ve made sweeping configuration changes to the way
that database tables and stuff are handled. Otherwise, it’s a bit of a
pain.

Wes