Any thoughts on Multi-tenant versus Multi-database apps in Rails

Question

Our app currently spawns a new database for each client. We\'re starting to wonder whether we should consider refactoring this to a multi-tenant system.

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Answer 1

I've been researching the same thing and just found this presentation to offer an interesting solution: Using Postgre's schemas (a bit like namespaces) to separate data at the DB level while keeping all tenants in the same DB and staying (mostly) transparent to rails.

Writing Multi-Tenant Applications in Rails - Guy Naor