Railroad-database problem

Hi all,

        I am facing with a new type of problem with railroad,

explained below

  1.               I am using an oracle database in my application. In
    

the database.yml file, I am having different schema connections to the
same database.like

development:

database: real_database

username: schema_name1

password: ************

adapter: oracle

abcd_development:

database: real_database

username: schema_name2

password: ************

adapter: oracle

legacy_development:

database: real_database

username: schema_name3

password: **************

adapter: oracle

u can observe that only the usernames/schemas are different but the
database is the same for all the connections.

And according to the rails-database conventions when defining multiple
connections in database.yml, we have to create separate models for each
of the connections like

reporting.rb

class Reporting < ActiveRecord::Base

connection = “legacy_#{ENV[‘RAILS_ENV’]}”

establish_connection connection.to_sym

end

where ENV[‘RAILS_ENV’] is development. (configured)

and suppose that there is a table xyz under this schema (schema_name3),
then I have to inherit from this class and define the model for the xyz
table like

xyz.rb

class Xyz < Reporting

set_table_name ‘xyzs’

set_primary_key ‘xyz_id’

end

so whenever the xyz table is called, it automatically connects to the
legacy_development connection and proceeds. Right ??

This is the scenario. (Hope my understanding is proper…!@#$#)

  1.               Now I am trying to run the railroad under my
    

application having these database connections.

I think , what is happening is, the railroad is trying to find a table
named reportings , but Reporting is just the connecting model for the
legacy_development connection. The error which I am getting is

R09222:~/project1> railroad -M models

(eval):3:in `describe’: “DESC reportings” failed; does it exist?
(RuntimeError)

    from

/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.15.3/lib/active_record/
connection_adapters/oracle_adapter.rb:316:in `columns’

    from

/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.15.3/lib/active_record/
base.rb:763:in `columns’

    from

/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.15.3/lib/active_record/
base.rb:782:in `content_columns’

    from

/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/railroad-0.4.0/lib/railroad/models_dia
gram.rb:60:in `process_class’

    from /usr/local

So It is clear that it is trying to find a table named reportings under
this schema.

When I exclude this file (reporting.rb), then itz giving another error
corresponding to the files inheriting the “Reporting” class like

railroad -M -e reporting.rb models

/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-1.4.2/lib/active_support
/dependencies.rb:266:in `load_missing_constant’: uninitialized constant
Reporting (NameError)

    from

/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-1.4.2/lib/active_support
/dependencies.rb:452:in `const_missing’

    from

/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-1.4.2/lib/active_support
/dependencies.rb:464:in `const_missing’

    from ./app/models/xyz.rb:1

    from

/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:27:in
`gem_original_require’

How to make railroad understand that reporting.rb is not a table but
just a connection.

                    So how to solve this. Is the behaviour of

railroad is like this only or is there any alternative for this.

                    Please help me.



                    THNX in advance for the help.

Thanks and Regards,

S. Anand.

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On Nov 29, 7:28 am, [email protected] wrote:

Hi all,

        I am facing with a new type of problem with railroad,

explained below

  1.               I am using an oracle database in my application. In
    

the database.yml file, I am having different schema connections to the
same database.like

Can you first try your success accessing your classes from script/
console ?

You’re trying to get too many things in one row, and sometimes you
missed the spot.

Tryo from the console grabbing the model information, and if it works
then look for problems in railroad.

How to make railroad understand that reporting.rb is not a table but
just a connection.

Reporting in a table, why then is inside app/models? and inherit from
ActiveRecord::Base ?

unknown wrote:

Hi all,

        I am facing with a new type of problem with railroad,

explained below

  1.               I am using an oracle database in my application. In
    

the database.yml file, I am having different schema connections to the
same database.like

A database can only have one schema definition from a rails perspective.

From the configuration file it appears that you are attempting to have
different users access the same db with different privilege sets. If
this is the case, then make sure that both users can see the “Reporting”
table.

Secondly, as suggested earlier, you should check the console to make
sure that you indeed have a table named: “reportings”…

Lastly, please post rails or “railroad” related questions to the rails
forum.

hth

ilan

Hi,
Thanks for the valuble help. I have anyhow solved the problem.
The problem was that, as I have correctly guessed the rails was
expecting a reportings table. But I need to tell the rails that
reportings is not a table, but only a connection. I did that by
including the line “self.abstract_class=>true” in the reportings.rb file
so that the rails does not expect a table out of it.

Thanks and Regards,
S. Anand.