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 don't have any experience with this personally, but during the lightning talks at the 2009 Ruby Hoedown, Andrew Coleman presented a plugin he designed and uses for multi-tenant databases in rails w/ subdomains. You can check out the lightning talk slides and here's the acts_as_restricted_subdomain repository.