Ruby on Rails

On Wed, Jul 12, 2017 at 6:33 AM, Ralph Shnelvar <ralphs@dos32.com> wrote:

> I _think_ I need to do something like "sudo -i -u SomeOtherPostgresUserName"
> but I want to do it inside Rails so I can connect to databases as user
> SomeOtherPostgresUserName.

I would look at

ActiveRecord::Base.establish_connection()

which accepts either an atom representing an entry in your
config/database.yml or a hash with DB login credentials.

Aside:

> class RalphSql
> def self.exec_sql(sql_text)
> begin
> # Return an array of records
> return ActiveRecord::Base.connection.execute(sql_text)

I hope you really really REALLY trust the input from your users
and do very frequent backups :-)

HTH!
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