You can call establish_connection with the key that points to another database config in your config/database.yml file
REXML could not parse this XML/HTML: <pre> class Person < ActiveRecord::Base establish_connection(:hr) end </pre>
REXML could not parse this XML/HTML: <pre> class Ticket < ActiveRecord::Base establish_connection(:bug_tracker) end </pre>
If you have a whole bunch of models that need to connect to another database:
REXML could not parse this XML/HTML: <pre> class HR < ActiveRecord::Base establish_connection(:hr) end class People < HR # ... end class Resource < HR # ... end </pre>