How can I dynamically change the Active Record database for all models in Ruby on Rails?

Question

In our program, each customer gets their own database. We e-mail them a link that connects them to their database. The link contains a GUID that lets the program know whic

Answer 1

you can change the connection to ActiveRecord at any time by calling ActiveRecord::Base.establish_connection(...)

IE:

 ActiveRecord::Base.establish_connection({:adapter => "mysql", :database => new_name, :host => "olddev",
    :username => "root", :password => "password" })