It's called "multitenant" and 2 is the best way to do it :-) On Jan 18, 2014 6:52 PM, "Kyle Fazzari" < [email protected]> wrote:
> Hello all. I'm not even sure what to call what I'm trying to do, so I'm > calling it a "meta project." It's not all that complicated... I just want > to know what people out there have done in the past. > > To explain what I'm talking about, I'll give a simple example. Say I > create a simple blog. This blog has two database tables: accounts and > articles. The accounts have admins and publishers (admins can create new > accounts, publishers cannot). > > Say my blog is a huge success, and other people want one. Well, I can > always just copy this project and make a new one, but say I want to be more > efficient and build into my original blog the ability to create new ones > (e.g. blogspot etc.) What is the best way to go about doing that? I can > think of three: > > 1) Multiple database connections > 2) Making a new "blogs" table and adding a blog_id to the accounts and > articles tables so each blog has its own resources. Also create new account > type "super admin" that can create new blogs. > 3) Creating new tables on the fly, e.g. "kyle_accounts" and "kyle_articles" > > I'm not really a huge fan of any of those options. I don't really feel > like Rails was built for (1), (2) feels like the best option although I > feel like things will get hard to keep track of fast, and (3) I actually > don't know how to do with MVC. > > I'm sure you guys have dealt with this before. Is there a standard way of > proceeding? Google wasn't turning anything up... not knowing what to call > what I'm trying to do doesn't help. > > Thank you! > > Kyle > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rubyonrails-talk/b7c189a6-00c0-49b1-b140-d1ce756f4e04%40googlegroups.com > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rubyonrails-talk/CA%2BsTbyt5htVixApT%3D%3DSRCpEYEuFQUqLxrrQzGToAQcuBx%3D9m_g%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
