How to use multiple databases for one rails 3.1 app in Heroku?

Question

My Rails 3.1 application connects to 2 databases, one is the default, the other is an Amazon RDS MYSQL instance.

The current database.yml contains two production dat

Answer 1

Regarding Neil's answer, here is a way to do it. Not an out-of-box solution, but might give you an idea... /lib/active_record_extensions.rb

module ActiveRecordExtensions
  class Shard < ActiveRecord::Base
    #need to switch to the shard database connection from heroku config 
    primary_database_url = ENV['PRIMARY_DATABASE_URL']

    if(!primary_database_url.nil?)
      parsed_connection_string = primary_database_url.split("://")
      adapter = parsed_connection_string[0]
      parsed_connection_string = parsed_connection_string[1].split(":")
      username = parsed_connection_string[0]
      parsed_connection_string = parsed_connection_string[1].split("@")
      password = parsed_connection_string[0]
      parsed_connection_string = parsed_connection_string[1].split("/")  
      host = parsed_connection_string[0]
      database = parsed_connection_string[1]

      establish_connection(
        :adapter  => adapter,
        :host     => host,
        :username => username,
        :password => password,
        :database => database,
        :port     => 3306,
        :pool     => 5,
        :timeout  => 5000
      )
    else
      self.establish_connection "shard_#{Rails.env}"
    end
  end

  class ShardMigration < ActiveRecord::Migration
    def connection
      ActiveRecord::Shard.connection 
    end
  end
end

So your model should just extend ActiveRecord::Shard instead of Base