thufir@dur:~/ruby/dwemthys$
thufir@dur:~/ruby/dwemthys$ ruby connect.rb
connecting...
connected?
class		Creature
life		life
strength	str
charisma	char
weapon		weapon
#<Creature:0x8bd5648>

[1]+  Stopped                 ruby connect.rb
thufir@dur:~/ruby/dwemthys$
[1]+  Done                    ruby connect.rb
thufir@dur:~/ruby/dwemthys$
thufir@dur:~/ruby/dwemthys$ cat connect.rb
require 'fileutils'
require 'active_record'
require_relative 'Creature'
require_relative 'Dragon'

puts "connecting..."

ActiveRecord::Base.establish_connection(
  :adapter  => "mysql",
  :host     => "localhost",
  :username => "java",
  :password => "password",
  :database => "nntp"
)

puts "connected?"

c = Creature.new

c.life = "life"
c.strength = "str"
c.charisma = "char"
c.weapon = "weapon"

puts c

c.save
thufir@dur:~/ruby/dwemthys$
thufir@dur:~/ruby/dwemthys$ cat Creature.rb
require 'active_record'

class Creature < ActiveRecord::Base

attr_accessor :life, :strength, :charisma, :weapon

def to_s ()
        print "class\t\t"
        print self.class

        print "\nlife\t\t"
        print @life

        print "\nstrength\t"
        print @strength

        print "\ncharisma\t"
        print @charisma

        print "\nweapon\t\t"
        print @weapon
        print "\n"
end


end
thufir@dur:~/ruby/dwemthys$
thufir@dur:~/ruby/dwemthys$ mysql -u java -p
Enter password:
Welcome to the MySQL monitor.  Commands end with ; or \g.
Your MySQL connection id is 238
Server version: 5.1.58-1ubuntu1 (Ubuntu)

Copyright (c) 2000, 2010, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
This software comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. This is free software,
and you are welcome to modify and redistribute it under the GPL v2 license

Type 'help;' or '\h' for help. Type '\c' to clear the current input statement.

mysql> use nntp;
Reading table information for completion of table and column names
You can turn off this feature to get a quicker startup with -A

Database changed
mysql> select * from creatures;
+----+------+----------+----------+--------+
| id | life | strength | charisma | weapon |
+----+------+----------+----------+--------+
|  1 | NULL |     NULL |     NULL |   NULL |
|  2 | NULL |     NULL |     NULL |   NULL |
|  3 | NULL |     NULL |     NULL |   NULL |
|  4 | NULL |     NULL |     NULL |   NULL |
|  5 | NULL |     NULL |     NULL |   NULL |
|  6 | NULL |     NULL |     NULL |   NULL |
|  7 | NULL |     NULL |     NULL |   NULL |
|  8 | NULL |     NULL |     NULL |   NULL |
|  9 | NULL |     NULL |     NULL |   NULL |
+----+------+----------+----------+--------+
9 rows in set (0.00 sec)

mysql> quit;
Bye
thufir@dur:~/ruby/dwemthys$