Ruby on Rails Wednesday, May 1, 2013

On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 8:09 AM, Wins Lin <lists@ruby-forum.com> wrote:
> I used MySQL as a backend before. Now I had to move to PG since Heroku
> doesn't have MySQL and forces everyone to use their Heroku-PG database.

Not really. You can run MySQL locally and use PG on Heroku.

> But PG virsion of Rails works diffidently. I cannot generate a model
> without PG server running:
>>> C:\ruby\Heroku\App>rails generate model Products

Maybe it's a Windows thing? I ran that exact command in a test app
with PG not running and it was fine. Trying to access the model in a
console expectedly threw an error.

> How to turn off this behavior of PG? I don't want to start PG server
> every time I just need to run some rails|rake task.

Why would you start and stop it at all? If that's what you're using,
start it at boot time and forget about it.

FWIW,
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