DataFabric: Easy Multiple DB Sharding Support for ActiveRecord
FiveRuns has released a library called DataFabric as an open source project on Github (with a MIT-esque license). DataFabric provides "flexible database connection switching" for ActiveRecord models, which permits easy replication-access and sharding support. DataFabric can be quickly installed with a simple gem install data_fabric
Rick Olson's Masochism is a pre-existing library that provides the multiple connection feature to AR already, but DataFabric builds on that by also providing support for sharding with a simple control method.
December 31st, 2009 at 1:13 pm
Hmmm, I see the link doesn't work any more, and this is a post from 1 1/2 years ago, which is an eternity in the internet world. Any ideas as to what happened here? I tried googling DataFabric and found the following link http://github.com/fiveruns/data_fabric