Add Check How Database Is Configured as a Rails TIL

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 - [Cast Common Boolean-Like Values To Booleans](rails/cast-common-boolean-like-values-to-booleans.md)
 - [Change The Nullability Of A Column](rails/change-the-nullability-of-a-column.md)
 - [Change The Time Zone Offset Of A DateTime Object](rails/change-the-time-zone-offset-of-a-datetime-object.md)
+- [Check How Database Is Configured](rails/check-how-database-is-configured.md)
 - [Check If ActiveRecord Update Fails](rails/check-if-activerecord-update-fails.md)
 - [Check If Any Records Have A Null Value](rails/check-if-any-records-have-a-null-value.md)
 - [Check Specific Attributes On ActiveRecord Array](rails/check-specific-attributes-on-activerecord-array.md)

rails/check-how-database-is-configured.md

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+# Check How Database Is Configured
+
+While making some adjustments to the database connection string (`DATABASE_URL`)
+for a pre-production Rails environment, we wanted to check that configuration
+options like `sslmode` were picked up.
+
+From a `rails console` session I can check the live database configuration like
+so:
+
+```ruby
+> ActiveRecord::Base.connection_db_config.configuration_hash
+=> {
+  adapter: "postgresql",
+  encoding: "unicode",
+  pool: 5,
+  database: "my_app_development"
+}
+```
+
+I can look at the
+[`configuration_hash`](https://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActiveRecord/DatabaseConfigurations/HashConfig.html#attribute-i-configuration_hash)
+from `rails console` of my pre-prod environment to see more configuration
+settings:
+
+```ruby
+> ActiveRecord::Base.connection_db_config.configuration_hash
+=> {
+  adapter: "postgresql",
+  encoding: "unicode",
+  pool: 5,
+  username: "app_user",
+  password: "super_s3cr3t",
+  port: 15432,
+  database: "pre_prod_database",
+  host: "some-host-123.ondigitalocean.com",
+  sslmode: "verify-full"
+}
+```
+
+Since I was specifically looking for the `sslmode` value, I can access that
+directly:
+
+```ruby
+> ActiveRecord::Base.connection_db_config.configuration_hash[:sslmode]
+=> "verify-full"
+```