Hi again Marnen. I think we're a little off topic. The problem at hand is connecting to multiple databases, not poo poo'ing on the requirements haha!
Thanks again for your input though! All thoughts are welcome. On Nov 2, 5:49 pm, Marnen Laibow-Koser <rails-mailing-l...@andreas- s.net> wrote: > jmamma wrote: > > [...] > > > Marnen - We need a db per customer for a few reasons. It will keep > > the clients data separate ( some of them are weird like that about > > their data, and require us to separate ), and also a particular > > customer could have a customer feature they purchase that won't make > > sense > > for all clients. That feature will cause for extra tables or columns > > in that particular customers db that won't be spread to everyone. > > None of these are good reasons to have a DB per customer, IMHO. These > are all easily achieved with one DB. As far as your clients' > requirements, the structure of the DB is really not any of their > business, and they are being unreasonable if they are trying to dictate > your implementation. > > > > > Also, this way we can easily backup a particular customer, or grab a > > customer's db a dump it on our local machine > > really quick and test with their data, rather than pulling down a > > giant db. > > You should be able to dump a subset without too much trouble. > > > > > And finally, we can take down a particular customer rather easy and > > not affect anyone else. > > Again, easy with one DB. > > > > > I'm in some ways trying to convince myself that its a good thing to do > > as well, since I don't have much choice in the matter haha! > > Not a laughing matter. If you don't have control over DB design, find > another project. You've apparently been stuck with asinine > requirements. > > > Thanks > > for the input though! > > Best, > -- > Marnen Laibow-Koserhttp://www.marnen.org > [email protected] > -- > Posted viahttp://www.ruby-forum.com/. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
