Rails: best practice to scope queries based on subdomain?

Question

I\'m working on a Rails (currently 2.3.4) app that makes use of subdomains to isolate independent account sites. To be clear, what I mean is foo.mysite.com should show the f

Answer 1

You might be better of having a database per account and switching the database connection based on the subdomain.

In addition to the above link if you have a model (in your case Account) that you want to use the default database just include establish connection in the model.

class Account < ActiveRecord::Base

  # Always use shared database
  establish_connection  "shared_#{RAILS_ENV}".to_sym