Recommendations for a fast standalone ActiveRecord process?

[xop]

Hi,

I need to create a standalone script that uses ActiveRecord.

I want it to be as fast as possible, without loading a lot of extra elements.

It seems to work fine to use ActiveRecord::Base.establish_connection and
include my models/ files, but some of those models use the methods named:
    Rails.root
    Rails.env

What is the best way to allow the models to continue to use these function
calls, and yet avoid loading an entire Rails application?

Thanks,
David

[Frederick Cheung]

Well you could always define them yourself - 

module Rails

  def self.root

    "hardcoded path"

  end

  def self.env

     ENV['RAILS_ENV'] || 'development'

  end

end

Fred