1.4.6 -> 1.5.0: Major change in this version of DbCharmer is association preload support. For example, let's say we have a schema: class Post < ActiveRecord::Base belongs_to :user end class User < ActiveRecord::Base has_many :posts end Now, if we have the following call in our code: User.on_db(:foo).all(:include => :posts) In 1.4.6 it would load the users from connection :foo and posts from the default connection, which is not what we would expect from this line of code. So, starting 1.5.0 all finder calls on models having :include parameter would switch associated models' connections to the same connection as the main model in the call.