RFC: #84 - Multitenant Rails Apps
Preston Lee
Rails Apps.
A multitenant RoR app generally hosts services for multiple business
client companies on a single application server, rather than
dedicating an application instance to a single client. Data tends to
be logically distinct, and some multitenant Rails apps allow custom
domain names for each account, allowing clients to hide the fact they
are using your system from their own customers. Since this is a
somewhat tricky topic, I'd like to solicit for questions beforehand.
We'll probably cover a lot of Ruby, Rails, CSS, JavaScript, DNS, SCM,
project management, rollout and customer service issues associated
with this type architecture, but would appreciate your questions
either on or off-list.
We'll also have a guest engineer from Intel in the studio, Marc Chung
who designed much of the system architecture for the OpenRain Online
Business Platform (openrainapp.com), and more!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multitenancy
Preston