Using Rails Migration on different database than standard “production” or “development”

Question

I have a rails project running that defines the standard production:, :development and :test DB-connections in config/database.yml

In addition I have a quiz_developm

Answer 1

Based on @TheDeadSerious's answer:

module ActiveRecord::ConnectionSwitch  
  def on_connection(connection_spec_name)
    raise ArgumentError, "No connection specification name specified. It should be a valid spec from database.yml" unless connection_spec_name
    ActiveRecord::Base.establish_connection(connection_spec_name)
    yield
  ensure
    ActiveRecord::Base.establish_connection(Rails.env)
  end
end

ActiveRecord.send :extend, ActiveRecord::ConnectionSwitch

Usage:

ActiveRecord.on_connection "sdmstore_#{Rails.env}" do
  Widget.delete_all
end