# Sengiri Flexible sharding access for Ruby on Rails with ActiveRecord ## Sharding model generator rails g sengiri:model mygroup user name:string ## database.yml mysql: &mysql adapter: mysql2 encoding: utf8 reconnect: false pool: 1 username: root password: host: localhost mygroup_shards_first: # define shard as 'first' <<: *mysql database: mygroup_1 host: hosta mygroup_shards_second: # define shard as 'second' <<: *mysql database: mygroup_2 host: hostb mygroup_shards_third: # define shard as 'third' <<: *mysql database: mygroup_3 host: hostc . . . ## Sharding migration rake sengiri:mygroup:db:create rake sengiri:mygroup:db:migrate ## Sharding access User.shard('second') do |shard| shard.all.limit(10) # query on db 'mygroup_1' end User.shards do |shard| shard.all.limit(10) # query on all db 'mygroup_1', 'mygroup_2', 'mygroup_3' end ## Transaction User.shard('second').transaction do # in mygroup_2 transaction end User.transaction do # in mygroup_1, mygroup_2 and mygroup_3 transaction end # This is same as below User.shard('first').transaction do User.shard('second').transaction do User.shard('third').transaction do end end end This project rocks and uses MIT-LICENSE.