You must establish a database connection before using acts_as_authentic

Today I had some fun when I was deploying my rails application to jenkins. When I tried to

rake test

I got an exception saying

You must establish a database connection before using acts_as_authentic

So I thought: Hey, then I will

rake db:schema:load

first. But I got the same error message again.

After doing some research I discovered that authlogic was expecting the users table to exist. So I created a dummy users table with the dbconsole:

CREATE TABLE users (email varchar(255);

Now I was able to load the schema. Funny. Not.

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