Detectify

Detectify provides a simple way to retrieve an ActiveRecord entity based on the domain/subdomain request information.

It’s a Ruby gem, similar to Houser, that helps you retrieve an Active Record entity from a database with a URL. You know Houser is a multi-tenancy gem that can send database requests using subdomain names. But Houser is a relatively old Ruby library. For modern Rails-based SaaS apps, we wanted more flexibility. That's why we've developed Detectify. For more information, you can read here Detectify review.

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'detectify', github: 'rubygarage/detectify'

and then execute: $ bundle

Finally, restart the server to apply the changes.

Detectify only supports applications built with Ruby 2.2.2 and Rails 4.2 or higher.

Start off by generating an initializer:

$ bundle exec rails g detectify:install

this will create file config/initializers/detectify.rb in your application directory.

You can configure Detectify for your application needs via initializer. After this you can access detected entity via: request.env['Detectify-Entity'].

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/rubygarage/detectify. This project is intended to be a safe, welcoming space for collaboration, and contributors are expected to adhere to the Contributor Covenant code of conduct.

The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.

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