# Locomotive and establish\_connection

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/locomotive-and-establish-connection/109886>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [July 19, 2007, 10:44pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/locomotive-and-establish-connection/109886 "2007-07-19T22:44:55Z")\
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**Author:** ![nextpulse](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/71c47a/32.png) [@nextpulse](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/nextpulse)\
**Post date:** [July 19, 2007, 10:44pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/locomotive-and-establish-connection/109886/1 "2007-07-19T22:44:55Z")

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I am using locomotive for development.  
My app uses dual databases and hence I have a model that uses a  
different establish\_connection to connect to the db.  
It seems that locomotive does not support this. Am I correct? If so,  
does anyone have a different approach to achieve this?

thanks.