Connecting to multiple databases in Active Record - nhibernate

Question

I'm trying to connect to multiple databases in castle active record (which uses nhibernate.) My config file looks like this:
<configSections>
<section name="activerecord" type="Castle.ActiveRecord.Framework.Config.ActiveRecordSectionHandler, Castle.ActiveRecord" />
<section name="log4net" type="log4net.Config.Log4NetConfigurationSectionHandler, log4net" />
</configSections>
<activerecord>
<config type="Navtrak.Business.Schemas.CommonSchemas.Models.NavtrakOperations.NavtrakOperationsDatabase`1, CommonSchemas">
<add key="hibernate.connection.connection_string" value="myconnstring" />
<add key="hibernate.connection.driver_class" value="NHibernate.Driver.SqlClientDriver" />
<add key="hibernate.dialect" value="NHibernate.Dialect.MsSql2005Dialect" />
<add key="hibernate.connection.provider" value="NHibernate.Connection.DriverConnectionProvider" />
</config>
<config type="Navtrak.Business.Schemas.CommonSchemas.Models.Errors.ErrorsDatabase`1, CommonSchemas">
<add key="hibernate.connection.connection_string" value="Data Source=myconnstring" />
<add key="hibernate.connection.driver_class" value="NHibernate.Driver.SqlClientDriver" />
<add key="hibernate.dialect" value="NHibernate.Dialect.MsSql2005Dialect" />
<add key="hibernate.connection.provider" value="NHibernate.Connection.DriverConnectionProvider" />
</config>
</activerecord>
And then I have a base abstract class for each database like this:
public abstract class NavtrakOperationsDatabase<T> : ActiveRecordBase<T>
{
}
And then each class inherits from this. I'm then initializing active record like this:
ActiveRecordStarter.Initialize(typeof(SimpleModel).Assembly, ActiveRecordSectionHandler.Instance);
Which gives me the error:
Could not find the dialect in the configuration
If I change the activation code to this:
ActiveRecordStarter.Initialize(
ActiveRecordSectionHandler.Instance,
typeof(NavtrakOperationsDatabase<>),
typeof(ErrorsDatabase<>)
);
Then I get the following error:
You have accessed an ActiveRecord class that wasn't properly initialized. There are two possible explanations: that the call to ActiveRecordStarter.Initialize() didn't include Navtrak.Business.Schemas.CommonSchemas.Models.NavtrakOperations.Application class, or that Navtrak.Business.Schemas.CommonSchemas.Models.NavtrakOperations.Application class is not decorated with the [ActiveRecord] attribute.
I obviously don't want to include every single class in the Initialize function.
Any ideas?

Answer 1

In my case - which was the same situation - I have added this to the InitializeAR method:
LoggerProvider.SetLoggersFactory(new NoLoggingLoggerFactory());
It ended up like this:
lock (typeof(SessionManager))
{
if (!initialized)
{
LoggerProvider.SetLoggersFactory(new NoLoggingLoggerFactory());
System.Reflection.Assembly bin = typeof(SimpleModel).Assembly;
IConfigurationSource s = (IConfigurationSource)ConfigurationManager.GetSection("activerecord");
ActiveRecordStarter.Initialize(bin, s);
}
initialized = true;
}

Answer 2

Drop the "hibernate." prefix from all config keys. That prefix was used in NHibernate 1.x