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A Rails Multi-Tenant Strategy That's ~30 Lines and "Just Works"

Jason Meller on November 09, 2021

When engineering a new SaaS app, how you plan to handle customer data tenancy is usually one of the first decisions you and your team will need to ...
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Bobby McDonald •

Should this

# spec/spec_helper.rb
config.before(:all) do
  Current.reset
end
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be

# spec/spec_helper.rb
config.before(:each) do
  Current.reset
end
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?

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Jason Meller Kolide •

You are correct! Fixed.

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Paul Anthony McGowan • • Edited

Awesome, am borrowing (stealing, whatever) it for Rails 7 Jumpstart themes at

github.com/xhostcom/rails-jumpstar...

Muchos Gracias, and may the forces of evil become extremely confused on the way to your house.

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Gary Hepting •

Nice write up!

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Alex Ghiculescu •

Since github.com/rails/rails/pull/46522 you don't need the optional: true

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Paul Anthony McGowan •

One thing though if the new user has not signed up yet, can not set an account, or account_id, get error You must set an account with Current.account=

Needs workaround for that.

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Harry •

Two possible options to consider:

  1. Create the tenant before the user so that the resource exists
  2. Don't use the concern on the user model and add a belongs_to :account, optional: true. Then probably want validations to ensure an account always exists on update.
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kirantpatil •

Hello,

Any further updates on scaling multi tenant ?

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BestFriend101 •

Don't forget to check out github.com/ErwinM/acts_as_tenant 👍

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Ashwin M •

After including the concern i cant even initialise my registration form because it raises Current::MissingCurrentAccount.

Is there a way around it?

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Rafael Macedo •

Do you use factory_bot for testing? How do you manage it in your test suite?