Setting connection.port inside a model class is ignored

[mpapper]

If I set the defaults for the couchdb database protocol, host, port etc using either a config/couchdb.yml file OR by calling CouchRest::Model::Base.configure do |config| ... these settings are not override-able even if specified explicitly in a model.

To illustrate:
put this in the config/couchdb.yml:

development:
protocol: http
host: localhost
port: 5984

Then make the following call in the rails console:

class ProjectG < CouchRest::Model::Base
use_database 'atlas'
connection.update(:host => 'app20068047.heroku.cloudant.com', :port => '443', :username=>'onedisceakeyreaturstreas', :password=>'XXXXX', :prefix=>nil,:suffix=>nil,:protocol=>'https')
end
ProjectG.database # => an error related to the call using the host/port/protocol set in the couchdb.yml

BUT if I move the coucgdb.yml out of config and restart my console and type the above class definition for ProjectG I get:

=> https://onedisceakeyreaturstreas:XXXXX@app20068047.heroku.cloudant.com:443/atlas

The error/fault is that the settings in couchdb.yml are never overrideable by any model class.