# Checks whether the connection to the database is still active (i.e. not stale).
# This is done under the hood by calling #active?. If the connection
# is no longer active, then this method will reconnect to the database.
defverify!(*ignored)
ifignored.size > 0
ActiveSupport::Deprecation.warn("Passing arguments to #verify method of the connection has no effect and has been deprecated. Please remove all arguments from the #verify method call.")