How can I take a SQL file and have it import into Rails Active Record base connection?

Question

I know how to execute raw SQL and I've found this command from other SO answers, ActiveRecord::Base.connection.execute(IO.read("Dump20171031.sql")) but I have no idea where I need to put this/what to do with it. I'm doing a class project and my partner has added some test data to a database and we're simply trying to connect the database, a .sql file, with the Rails backend

Answer 1

You can put that line into rails console and it should work. Go to your rails project and type rails console to get into the console.