Invoking a large set of SQL from a Rails 4 application

Question

I have a Rails 4 application that I use in conjunction with sidekiq to run asynchronous jobs. One of the jobs I normally run outside of my Rails application is

Answer 1

I agree with Sharagoz, if you just need to run a specific query, the best way is to send the query string directly into the connection, like:

ActiveRecord::Base.connection.execute(File.read("myquery.sql"))

If the query is not static and you have to compose it, I would use Arel, it's already present in Rails 4.x:

https://github.com/rails/arel