Accessing Rails Configuration and database.yml Programatically
I changed our database.yml to use merge keys, but we have a case where the host is different for production from all the other environments. I wanted to test and ensure the prod db host remained correct with the yaml merge - the docs say it works like hash#merge, but you don’t wanna mess around with your production environment.
So here’s how to access your configuration programmatically, so you can test it - note that “database_configuration” is a hash with the values from database.yml.
[ruby]def test_db_host_configuration config = Rails::Configuration.new assert_equal “prod_host”, config.database_configuration[“production”][“host”] assert_equal “prod_host”, config.database_configuration[“other_production”][“host”] assert_equal “localhost”, config.database_configuration[“development”][“host”] … # etc end[/ruby]
Take at a look at initalizer.rb in the rails source to see what is all on the configuration object, you can lots of useful stuff there. Note that this is creating a new config object, not reading the in-memory one, so I suppose if you do crazy stuff like modify config values on the fly this wouldn’t be reliable.