I open-sourced a modern acts_as_tenant alternative for Rails 7+

--- title : " Introducing rails-tenantify: Row-Level Multi-Tenancy for Rails 7+" published : true description : " A modern, safe, and robust row-level multi-tenancy gem for Ruby on Rails. Prevent data leaks, protect bulk writes, and preserve tenant context in background jobs." tags : rails, ruby, opensource, saas --- ## The Problem Every multi-tenant SaaS app eventually needs to answer the same questions: * How do we make sure School A never sees School B's data? * How do we scope every query to the right organization? * How do we keep tenant context alive in background jobs and Sidekiq retries? * How do we stop a careless `update_all` from wiping another tenant's rows? The typical answer is *"use acts_as_tenant"* or *"switch to Apartment."* But in modern Rails development, that often means: * Fighting unmaintained APIs on Rails 7+ * Losing tenant context when a background job retries * Dealing with schema-per-tenant complexity (Apartment) and heavy DevOps overhead * Rolling your own `default_scope` and crossing your fingers that nobody calls `unscoped` For most Rails apps, you just need **row-level tenancy** : one database, one `organization_id` column, and strict scoping. The pattern is simple. Getting it **safe** in production is not. --- ## What I Built **`rails-tenantify`** is a Ruby gem that adds row-level multi-tenancy directly to your Rails models and controllers. No external services, no extra databases per tenant—just your own PostgreSQL (or SQLite in dev). ruby class Project < ApplicationRecord include Tenantify::Scoped belongs_to_tenant :organization end ### Set the tenant once per request ruby class ApplicationController < ActionController::Base set_tenant_by :subdomain # acme.yourapp.com → Organization end ### Everything scopes automatically ruby Tenantify.current_tenant = current_organization Project.all # Only this org's projects Project.create!(name: "Q2 Roadmap") # organization_id is set automatically ### Switch context safely for admins or scripts