In this panel, you can specify how the application connects with a database. The IDE uses this information to write the configurations in the database.yml
file.
If you click Next or Finish without making any changes, the database.yml
file is configured to use the MySQL database and will not use a JDBC connection. The IDE also derives the development, test, and production database names from the project name.
This is the third panel of the New Project wizard for a Ruby on Rails project. To open the wizard, choose Files > New Project, then select Ruby in the Category list and Ruby on Rails Application in the Projects list and click Next twice.
Select Configure Using IDE Connections to use a database that you have already registered with the IDE or to register a connection. Otherwise, select Specify Database Information Directly.
The IDE uses this information to update the configuration in the database.yml
file.
Select this option to allow the IDE to configure Rails to use JDBC drivers when accessing the database. When you use JDBC to access the database, the IDE automatically creates references to the driver JAR file or files of the selected JDBC connections.