Information on how to use Ardent without the complete Laravel framework

[igorsantos07]

I was looking for a decent AR implementation to use with my standalone REST server, and was thinking about using Eloquent when discovered Ardent and that in fact all the Laravel components are under Illuminate's repositories. So far, so good.

However, I couldn't find anywhere how to configure the database connections to be used by Ardent/Eloquent. The only information I got was to create a config/database.php file, but how should I use it to configure the library?

[igorsantos07]

Found this gist, it only lacks the need of a new \Illuminate\Container\Container as argument for the new ConnectionFactory.

[igorsantos07]

Finally giving up after finding the issue reported here:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16525405/fail-to-make-laravel-4s-validator-class-work-outside-the-framework