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

I've found the acts_as_tenant gem [github] works great for this feature. It does the scoping for you with minimal extra effort, and also makes bypassing the scoping difficult.

Here's the initial blog post about it: http://www.rollcallapp.com/blog/2011/10/03/adding-multi-tenancy-to-your-rails-app-acts-as-tenant