Standard Way To Create Meta Project

[Kyle Fazzari]

Hello all. I'm not even sure what to call what I'm trying to do, so I'm calling it a "meta project." It's not all that complicated... I just want to know what people out there have done in the past.

To explain what I'm talking about, I'll give a simple example. Say I create a simple blog. This blog has two database tables: accounts and articles. The accounts have admins and publishers (admins can create new accounts, publishers cannot).

Say my blog is a huge success, and other people want one. Well, I can always just copy this project and make a new one, but say I want to be more efficient and build into my original blog the ability to create new ones (e.g. blogspot etc.) What is the best way to go about doing that? I can think of three:

1) Multiple database connections
2) Making a new "blogs" table and adding a blog_id to the accounts and articles tables so each blog has its own resources. Also create new account type "super admin" that can create new blogs.
3) Creating new tables on the fly, e.g. "kyle_accounts" and "kyle_articles"

I'm not really a huge fan of any of those options. I don't really feel like Rails was built for (1), (2) feels like the best option although I feel like things will get hard to keep track of fast, and (3) I actually don't know how to do with MVC.

I'm sure you guys have dealt with this before. Is there a standard way of proceeding? Google wasn't turning anything up... not knowing what to call what I'm trying to do doesn't help.

Thank you!

Kyle

[Dheeraj Kumar]

It's called "multitenant" and 2 is the best way to do it :-)

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[Kyle Fazzari]

A good answer and *bam!* all of a sudden, Google results thanks to the word I was looking for! Thank you :) .

Kyle

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