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Chris Oliver
Hi, I'm Chris. I'm the creator of GoRails, Hatchbox.io and Jumpstart. I spend my time creating tutorials and tools to help Ruby on Rails developers build apps better and faster.
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Rails apps and Rubygems might need to support multiple databases. We can use the DATABASE_URL environment variable to quickly swap out the database that Rails uses in CI, local testing, and more.
Notes
Postgres Rails Database URL example:
DATABASE_URL=postgres://username:password@localhost/mydb rails test
MySQL Rails Database URL example:
DATABASE_URL=mysql2://username:password@localhost/mydb rails test
SQLite Rails Database URL example:
DATABASE_URL=sqlite3:mydb rails test
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