Question

It seems that the database used to display the data is different from the one I can work with in rails console.

I have tried running rails dbconsole and I get:

Couldn't find database client: sqlite3. Check your $PATH and try again.

My test and development database adapter are SQlite3 and my production adapter is MYSQL.

I need my rails console to connect to my production database.

Answer 1

If you want to connect to your production database, you need to set the RAILS_ENV environment variable to production before executing the console or dbconsole commands.

The “Rails console” and the dbconsole command reference different things:

If you want to connect directly to your database to execute SQL statements, use

$ RAILS_ENV=production ./script/rails dbconsole

If you’re trying to load the “Rails console”, that is, an interactive Ruby shell with access to your Rails environment, run

$ RAILS_ENV=production ./script/rails console