Hi Roy,
you are right, I can modify my task to use ActiveResource. But it
could be perhaps a quite long work... and I'm lazy :P

On 4 Mar, 21:35, Roy Pardee <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hmmm--well I'd have a look at ActiveResource then.  My understanding is that
> it gives a local, scriptable interface (one that's very ActiveRecord-esque)
> on remote rails apps via REST webservice type calls.  I think the theory is
> that you get a remote-accessible automation interface on your rails app for
> the price of abiding by the various RESTful conventions that rails likes so
> much.  But someone should check me on that--I don't have any direct
> experience w/it myself.
>
> Anyhoo--if that's not too far wrong, and assuming the overhead of the
> underlying HTTP calls isn't too horrible to endure, I'm thinking you could
> make DBI connections to your local mssql db, read stuff into memory, and
> then push the data to your remote app via the ActiveResource objects.
>
> Cheers,
>
> -Roy
>
>
>
>
>
> On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 12:25 PM, Daniele <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Hi Roy,
> > actually I have a rake task in my RoR app that connect to a remote
> > MSSQL database and import data. This task use dbi with a quite complex
> > system configuration.
> > Because I cannot use it on Heroku it could be nice to setup the Heroku
> > database as remote one on a second installation so I can use the
> > migration task to push the data.
>
> > On 4 Mar, 21:12, Roy Pardee <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > Is it a rails app?  If so, maybe a ruby script using the ActiveResource
> > > library would work for you?
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