Issue with applications using initializers that connect to a database

[laph]

I'd like to give you some feedback to your plugin. In general it works fine, however, there is a issue if a application has initializers in lib/initializers/ directory which try to establish a database connection. In such a case, the application won't start or be spawned by Passenger (in production env.).

I'm not absolutely sure why this happens. My guess is that these initializers attempt a db connection even before the prepend_before filter from the Application Controller is invoked and therefore use and search for the db connection details as usual in the config/database.yml's 'production' section.

Workaround:
By keeping a (valid) 'dummy' production section in the old database.yml file it's possible to still spawn the application in production. Of course this might have some impact on the application's behaviour depending on what the initializer is doing.

Any idea's on how to solve this?