UPDATE: @NateDhaliwal rightfully points out my accessing the DB in after_initializer may break the rules - I was just lucky for a long time. I’m going to make some changes. I’m getting: ActiveRecord::NoDatabaseError: We could not find your database: discourse_test. Available database configuratio…

Not 100% sure, but I think it happens if you use ActiveRecord through things like User, etc openly, e.g. not in on() or in a job but just in after_initialize. I encountered this too not long ago… IIRC I had to ask AI for this; I moved the code to a scheduled job and it was fine after that.

Apologies, on second look it does seem to be failing on my code, but I am accessing it in after_initialize Looks like the rules might have changed: user_count = User.count doesn’t look legal in an initializer anymore (perhaps it was always bad practice) thanks for the suggestion! :clap: I think…

Unexpected error in Discourse Plugin CI

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NateDhaliwal (Nate Dhaliwal) August 13, 2025, 12:07am 5

No problem, glad you got it working!

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Unexpected error in Discourse Plugin CI

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