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Ryan Bigg
October 25, 2014
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Rails Pacific - Multitenancy with Rails
Covers the lessons learned about Multitenancy with Rails in the process of writing my book.
Ryan Bigg
October 25, 2014
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#21 Not #21
Multitenancy with Rails Ryan Bigg
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Multitenancy?
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Organization Team Repos
User Repos
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DOGLIFEBETA! Garçon Fluffy Brutus “Like Facebook, but for dogs”
Multitenancy with Rails?
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Is it… ✔ well maintained ✔ well documented ✔ clean
code
acts_as_tenant ✔ well documented
acts_as_tenant ✔ well maintained ✔ 140 commits, 19 contributors, low
issue count ✔ CI on Travis
acts_as_tenant ✔ clean code
acts_as_tenant
RequestStore.store
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Thread.current Thread.current
apartment ✔ well documented ✔ well maintained ✔ clean code
“If you are using PostgreSQL, Apartment by default will set
up a new schema and migrate into there.”
“If you are using PostgreSQL, Apartment by default will set
up a new schema and migrate into there.”
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“A database contains one or more named schemas, which in
turn contain tables.” “There are several reasons why one might want to use schemas: * To allow many users to use one database without interfering with each other.”
“To allow many users to use one database without interfering
with each other.”
ryanbigg=# SHOW search_path; search_path ---------------- "$user",public (1 row) "$user",public
fluffy.doglife.com garcon.doglife.com DOGLIFE BETA! brutus.doglife.com 1 2 3
(1.4ms) CREATE SCHEMA "garcon" <more tables go here>
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DEPLOY IT!
Heroku Postgres
Backup time 24 hours
PostgreSQL is great
PostgreSQL with too many schemas
Part 2: Schema-less Multitenancy
Apartment
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TEST ALL THE TIME
TEST ALL THE TIME?
TEST ALL THE TIME
Are you testing right now? No?
TEST ALL THE TIME OR ELSE
A codebase without tests
fluffy.doglife.com Fluffy’s Posts current_account = Fluffy @posts = current_account.posts fluffy.doglife.com/posts
Feature #1: Viewing Posts
A guest on Account A’s subdomain should only see Account
A’s posts Expected to not see “<Account B’s post>” Feature #1: Viewing Posts
Feature #1: Viewing Posts
Feature #1: Viewing Posts
Feature #1: Viewing Posts
A guest on Account A’s subdomain should only see Account
A’s posts Feature #1: Viewing Posts
fluffy.doglife.com Fluffy’s Posts current_account = Fluffy @posts = current_account.posts fluffy.doglife.com/posts
Feature #1: Viewing Posts
fluffy.doglife.com Fluffy’s Albums current_account = Fluffy @albums = current_account.albums fluffy.doglife.com/albums
Fluffy’s First Birthday Pictures @pictures = @album.pictures fluffy.doglife.com/albums/1/pictures Feature #2: Viewing Pictures
A guest on Account A’s subdomain should only see Account
A’s albums Expected to not see “<Account B’s album>” Feature #2: Viewing Pictures
Feature #2: Viewing Pictures
Feature #2: Viewing Pictures
A guest on Account A’s subdomain should only see Account
A’s albums Feature #2: Viewing Pictures
A guest on Account A’s subdomain viewing an album shows
pictures from that album Expected to not see “<Account B’s picture>” Feature #2: Viewing Pictures
Feature #2: Viewing Pictures
Feature #2: Viewing Pictures
A guest on Account A’s subdomain viewing an album shows
pictures from that album Feature #2: Viewing Pictures
fluffy.doglife.com Fluffy’s Albums current_account = Fluffy @albums = current_account.albums fluffy.doglife.com/albums
Fluffy’s First Birthday Pictures @pictures = @album.pictures fluffy.doglife.com/albums/1/pictures Feature #2: Viewing Pictures
Feature #2: Viewing Pictures
REGRESSION TEST ALL THE TIME
Feature #2: Viewing Pictures
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Part 3: Subscriptions
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doglife.com/sign_up plan = Basic ($9.99) Feature #3: User subscribes to
a plan ???
“Writing code to manage subscriptions is easy.” - nobody, ever
Your subscriptions code
PayPal
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PayPal
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“Stripe makes recurring and subscription-based billing easy.”
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:CreateRecurringPaymentsProfileRequestDetails PayPal
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“My company makes your life easy.”
doglife.com/sign_up plan = Basic ($9.99) Feature #3: User subscribes to
a plan
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