My recent post Use different mongodb instances in mongoid tells you how to use multiple databases, it looks good, but mongoid began to support multiple databases itself from mongoid.2.0.0.rc.1, much better than my hack.
It's really easy to use, first, you should define multiple databases in mongoid.yml like
development:
<<: *defaults
host: localhost
database: main_mongo_instance
databases:
other_mongo_instance_name:
database: other_mongo_instance
host: localhost
As you seen, besides the common database param, I have defined a new param databases, you should define the mongo instance name with database and host name, and of course, you can define as many mongo instances as you need.
Then, you can choose which mongo instance to use in mongoid model.
class User
include Mongoid::Document
set_database :other_mongo_instance_name
end
set_database method tells mongoid that the model will use another mongo instance instead of the main mongo instance, here we use the name other_mongo_instance_name which should exactly be the same with the name defined in mongoid.yml. If you don't say anything, it will use the main_mongo_instance.
So all the users data will be stored to other_mongo_instance_name, and the other data will be stored to main_mongo_instance. Great!
