Best way to share ActiveRecord models and data between different Rails Apps?

Question

I have several rails applications that will use the same core set of Models and data, for example:

• Apps
• Developers
• Categories

Each

Answer 1

I'm using a shared database to solve the shared data problem between heroku and a server on EC2 which does some background processing I can't do on heroku. In my case I'm using the same application, but really all I'm doing is using delayed_job on the EC2, so I'm only using the models from the app there. If I were going to use them in another application, I would probably go through the trouble of creating a gem to use between them.