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Posted by Jared Kimball
Jared Kimball
6,896 Points

Deploying app with multiple databases rails

I would like to deploy an app where each organization that sign's up receives a separate subdomain for their task area. I know how to tackle this but how can I go about setting up a new database for that sole organization upon signup? Kind of like generating a wp-config in wordpress or database.yml in RoR.

Jesse Fisher
Jesse Fisher
10,830 Points

There is a Gem called apartment that may be of help to you.

https://github.com/influitive/apartment

There is also a Gem called milia

https://github.com/dsaronin/milia

I was developing an app with the intention of creating a database and sub-domain for each user, just as you have described. While researching how to do it, I felt that apartment would be the best fit. However, in the end I simply used a single database, so I do not have any experience with apartment.

Jared Kimball
Jared Kimball
6,896 Points

Okay, thanks. I was thinking something more along the lines of using establish_connection from the ActiveRecord::Base whenever someone was creating a new account. It would take their connection info as part of the sign-up form (like you would if you were creating a new wordpress install).

Any ideas?