Ryan Taylor Long

This bit me too. At least a mention in the docs would help.

Thanks, I'll try that.

@Streeterxs Did you find a workaround for this?

For anyone still struggling with this, see my comment on this newer Issue https://github.com/debricked/dmarc-visualizer/issues/41#issuecomment-1386567305

I have it working, though I encountered these errors too. The connection errors come when ElasticSearch is not _yet_ available (it takes a short time to initialize and start listening),...

Since the maintainer seems to have abandoned this repo, I recommend [Blather](https://github.com/sprsquish/blather) to anyone who is looking for a Ruby 1.9 Jabber interface.

I also see this issue. I have basically the same environment except I'm using Rails 3.0.9 on Ruby 1.9.2

@dlupu, I _was_ able to work around this, though, by copying the `lib/generators/heroku_external_db/templates/initializer.rb` file into my app's `config/initializers/` as `heroku_external_db.rb`. The rest of the code seems to work fine, so...

I think it would be best to make the default initializer's behavior the default after having loaded the gem. That is, ditch the generic initializer. If `ENV['EXTERNAL_DATABASE_URL'].present?` then load the...

That is a good point. I'll change my answer, then: "What he said." :-)