MultiSite

MultiSite provides the ability to scope your models by tenant. MultiSite gem is very similar to multi-tenancy gems such as acts_as_tenant but less strict on it's implementation.

Getting Started

If you need to organize your models by site scope MultiSite is great for that!

Installation

gem 'multi_site'

Main Features of MultiSite:

• provides scopes to fetch records from a specific site
• give you helper methods know what is the current site
• keeps the switch site logic away from your application.

How to Use MultiSite

With Your ActiveRecord Models

First, you need to have a class named Site. This is the only constraint you have.

class Site < ActiveRecord::Base
  # ...
end

In your Models you need to insert the class method has_site_scope to declare which ones are scoped by site:

class User < ActiveRecord::Base
  has_site_scope
end

class Card < ActiveRecord::Base
  has_site_scope
end

With Your Controllers

Now on, every model registered has a new scope called on_site. When you call the model User with scope on_site it should return all the users from current site:

class UsersController < ApplicationController
  def  index
    #fetch all the users
    @all_users = User.all
    #fetch all the users from current site
    @site_users = User.on_site
    #fetch all the users from current site with a certain age
    @site_users = User.on_site.where(:age => 15)
  end

end

Instead of scoping the classes to their tenants by default, MultiSite, allows the programmer to choose what he wants.

With Your Routes

MultiSite provides a routing helper to to hide the site handling from you.

Application.routes.draw do
   multi_site_scope do
      resources :users
      # this will handle a uri like this:
      # /:multi_site/users/:id
      # and you can use the route helpers transparently
      # e.g. new_user_url, edit_user_path(1), etc
      resources :cards
      # /:multi_site/cards/...
   end
end

All the resources inside of multi_site scope will automatically handle the multi_site parameter, and all route helpers will use it transparently.

With Your Views

MultiSite provides a helper method called current_site. It can be used on views or controllers context and give us the current site selected by the application.

<% if current_site.present? %>
  <p>Site Name: <%= current_site.name %></p>
<% else %>
  <p> Please you need to <%= link_to "login", "/login" %> first.
<% end %>

Security

MultiSite doesn't provide any security features. You have the responsability to implement them. For example, to guarantee that a user doesn't have access to unauthorized tenants, you can create a before_filter action that checks if the user's site is the same as current_site:

class UsersController < ApplicationController

  before_filter :check_site_access
  #...
  def check_site_access
    unless current_user.site == current_site
      raise "Access Denied"
    end
  end
end

Cross site controllers

You'll surely need cross site operations. We can get you there providing a macro that allows site switching:

class Admin::AdminController < ApplicationController
  cross_site_controller

  def show
    @admin_site = current_site
  end

  def switch_site
    self.current_site = Site.find(params[:site_id])
    redirect_to admin_admin_url, notice: "Switched to: #{current_site.url}"
  end
end

you can declare the default site with:

MultiSite::Supra.default_site = Site.where(default: true).first

Threading

MultiSite uses thread context to keep current site id saved for scopes. If you initializate new threads you need to copy the current site to the new thread in order to keep the functionality unchanged.

For example:

site = current_site
Thread.new {
  MultiSite.current_site = site

  # .. do you work here

  users = User.on_site
  users.map {|u| u.simulate_taxes }
}

RoadMap

• make the site model name customizable
• make the param name entry customizable
• add specs for Rails 3+. Only Rails 4+ are provided at the moment

License

Copyright © 2013 Runtime Revolution, released under the MIT license.