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Some people lucky enough to be in a large corporate requiring enterprise-quality software with redundant databases will love this: Magic Multi Connections by the genius Dr Nic. (fanfare please!)

The problem is simple:

• How to connect a Rails app to more than one database.

The answer solution is also simple:

• [almost] 75-line Rails plugin (+ gem) called Magic Multi Connections.

Dr Nic Williams himself wrote a very interesting Magic Multi Connections tutorial. And DHH suggested that Twitter should probably use it.

Connection pooling and database clustering is a relatively complicated subject. But I’d say this plugin solves about 80% of the problem in 2% of the code.

Note: Sorry, you’re right, there’s no such things as “Rails, Enterprise Edition”… As Shakespeare once wrote: “What’s in a name?”

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