Rails: How to split write/read query across master/slave database
My website has a very heavy read traffic. A lot heavier than write traffic. To improve the performance of my website I have thought of going with master/slave database configuration. The octupus gem seems to provide what I want, but since my app is huge I can't go though a millions of source code line to change the query distribution(sending read query to slave server and write query to master server). MySQL Proxy seems to be a great way to resolve this issue but since it is in alpha version I don't want to use it. So my question is what is the best way to split read/write queries across