I ended up creating a new rails app, and setup everything again. Copy the same database. Yml config then did rake db:migrate, then include the necessary model files, went into rails console and it works now.
Of course, the database is already set up but App B doesn't have a copy of the schema. So, you can either run the migrations in App B or copy the schema from App A to App B.
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