Skapa en multi-tenant-applikation med PostgreSQL:s scheman och Rails

Uppdatering 5 december 2011

Tack vare Brad Robertson och hans team finns Lägenhetspärla . Den är väldigt användbar och gör mycket av de tunga lyften.

Men om du ska mixtra med scheman rekommenderar jag starkt att du vet hur det faktiskt fungerar. Bekanta dig med Jerod Santos genomgång , så att du vet vad lägenhetsädelsten mer eller mindre gör.

Uppdatering 20 augusti 2011 11:23 GMT+8

Någon skapade ett blogginlägg och går igenom hela processen ganska bra.

Uppdatering 11 maj 2010 11:26 GMT+8

Sedan igår kväll har jag kunnat få en metod att fungera som skapar ett nytt schema och laddar in schema.rb i det. Inte säker på om det jag gör är korrekt (verkar fungera bra, än så länge) men det är åtminstone ett steg närmare. Om det finns ett bättre sätt vänligen meddela mig.

  module SchemaUtils
   def self.add_schema_to_path(schema)
    conn = ActiveRecord::Base.connection
    conn.execute "SET search_path TO #{schema}, #{conn.schema_search_path}"
   end

   def self.reset_search_path
    conn = ActiveRecord::Base.connection
    conn.execute "SET search_path TO #{conn.schema_search_path}"
   end

   def self.create_and_migrate_schema(schema_name)
    conn = ActiveRecord::Base.connection

    schemas = conn.select_values("select * from pg_namespace where nspname != 'information_schema' AND nspname NOT LIKE 'pg%'")

    if schemas.include?(schema_name)
     tables = conn.tables
     Rails.logger.info "#{schema_name} exists already with these tables #{tables.inspect}"
    else
     Rails.logger.info "About to create #{schema_name}"
     conn.execute "create schema #{schema_name}"
    end

    # Save the old search path so we can set it back at the end of this method
    old_search_path = conn.schema_search_path

    # Tried to set the search path like in the methods above (from Guy Naor)
    # [METHOD 1]: conn.execute "SET search_path TO #{schema_name}"
    # But the connection itself seems to remember the old search path.
    # When Rails executes a schema it first asks if the table it will load in already exists and if :force => true. 
    # If both true, it will drop the table and then load it. 
    # The problem is that in the METHOD 1 way of setting things, ActiveRecord::Base.connection.schema_search_path still returns $user,public.
    # That means that when Rails tries to load the schema, and asks if the tables exist, it searches for these tables in the public schema.
    # See line 655 in Rails 2.3.5 activerecord/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/postgresql_adapter.rb
    # That's why I kept running into this error of the table existing when it didn't (in the newly created schema).
    # If used this way [METHOD 2], it works. ActiveRecord::Base.connection.schema_search_path returns the string we pass it.
    conn.schema_search_path = schema_name

    # Directly from databases.rake. 
    # In Rails 2.3.5 databases.rake can be found in railties/lib/tasks/databases.rake
    file = "#{Rails.root}/db/schema.rb"
    if File.exists?(file)
     Rails.logger.info "About to load the schema #{file}"
     load(file)
    else
     abort %{#{file} doesn't exist yet. It's possible that you just ran a migration!}
    end

    Rails.logger.info "About to set search path back to #{old_search_path}."
    conn.schema_search_path = old_search_path
   end
  end