Executing an SQL Query Directly from ActiveRecord

You can execute sql queries directly from ActiveRecord

#execute

users = ActiveRecord::Base.connection.execute("SELECT id, first_name, created_at FROM users WHERE id=1")

users[0]
{
  "id"         => "1",
  "first_name" => "Ren",
  "created_at" => "2017-01-01 12:23:67.425118"
}

Comments

[Francisco Quintero 🇨🇴]

Thanks! Very useful. In the guides this information is not present.

[Igor Kasyanchuk]

more elegant solution: github.com/igorkasyanchuk/execute_sql :)