ErwinM/acts_as_tenant

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What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

A Ruby gem that adds fail-safe row-level multi-tenancy to Ruby on Rails applications using a shared database. It scopes models to a current tenant (e.g., an Account), sets the tenant per request via subdomain or controller, and guards against tenant-scoping bypasses.

Use cases

• add multi-tenancy to a Rails app with a shared database
• scope all ActiveRecord models to the current tenant automatically
• resolve the current tenant from the request subdomain
• validate record uniqueness within a tenant
• prevent users from accessing another tenant's data

When to choose

• you're building a Rails app with a shared database and row-level tenancy
• you want automatic, fail-safe tenant scoping with minimal code changes
• you identify tenants by subdomain or per-request logic

When to avoid

• you need schema-based multitenancy (consider the Apartment gem)
• you're not using Rails or ActiveRecord
• you need database-per-tenant isolation

Facets

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middleware database security web-development backend developer-tools ruby rails multi-tenancy row-level-tenancy shared-database gem activerecord web-server

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