dynamic table names for Active Record models

Question

I have an interesting Active Record problem and I\'m not quite sure what the cleanest solution is. The legacy database that I am integrating with has a strange wrinkle in its sc

Answer 1

DB table partitioning is pretty common practice really. I'd be surprised if someone hasn't done this before. How about ActsAsPartitionable? http://revolutiononrails.blogspot.com/2007/04/plugin-release-actsaspartitionable.html

Another possibility: can your DBMS pretend that the partitions are one big table? I think MySQL supports this.