Ruby on Rails

Assuming you are using postgresql you might be interested in this railscast (paid)

http://railscasts.com/episodes/389-multitenancy-with-postgresql

Which takes advantage of being able to have multiple schemas in PostgreSQL.

Be aware though that it will make your initial coding more complicated and will
have knock-on effects for things like testing etc.

Basically, it will do what you want but it will not be free in terms of development effort.

I echo other statements that this may be premature optimisation, look at the railscast, give
it a try yourself and see if the trade-off is good enough for you.

(If you do not want to pay for railscasts then have a look at this gem: https://github.com/influitive/apartment)

Thanks for posting, I appreciate the feedback.

I'll start with keeping everything within a single database and take it from there.

You are right Julian in that I am new with RoR and what I've asked for is advanced.

I'm still curious though how creating databases dynamically would be done so if it's explained anywhere I'd love to read it!

2013/4/4 Julian Leviston <julian@coretech.net.au>

On 04/04/2013, at 6:05 PM, Johan Vauhkonen <johan.vauhkonen@gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks for replying, Julian.
>
> Can you point me to any resources that describe how to do it?
>
> I agree that I should not optimize prematurely but what I'm considering is which is easier,
> to go with dynamically creating databases from the start or to extract data from the single database to new databases later on?
>
> It's at least something to keep in the back of my mind.

Hi,

You shouldn't attempt to do this if you don't already understand enough Ruby / Rails to do it yourself.

So, I suggest sticking with what you *can* do first.

This might sound like a cop out, but there's very good reason. It's very advanced Rails and you really shouldn't attempt something like this until you understand the basics really well IMHO.

Julian

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