DataMapper out of the box will let you use multiple databases, although these need to be known at app boot time.
For ActiveRecord, this article might lead you somewhere: http://tomayko.com/writings/rails-multiple-connections Nathan On Feb 10, 1:34 pm, Marcelo Barbudas <nos...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi. > > > > > > It's a high volume app, that's written as a standalone service. > > > Extending it as a hosted solution and keeping updates nice is a big > > > part of what the project is about. > > > And all of that would be easier with one big DB, at least as far as > > you've described. > > You are right, it would definitely be easier if this App was written > with a hosted version in mind. Unfortunately it isn't. > > Still, the volume of traffic and DB size of the app means that if > someone grows bigger we want to be able to quickly move it to > something dedicated. > > -- > Cheers, > R. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-t...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.