configure :development do set :database, 'sqlite3:db/development.db' end configure :production do db = URI.parse(ENV['DATABASE_URL'] || 'postgres:///localhost/mydb') ActiveRecord::Base.establish_connection( :adapter => db.scheme == 'postgres' ? 'postgresql' : db.scheme, :host => db.host, :username => db.user, :password => db.password, :database => db.path[1..-1], :encoding => 'utf8' ) end