Hey Jack,

A common approach in ruby apps is using the Octopus gem. An approach
to making it work seamlessly on Heroku can be found on Dev Center:
https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/distributing-reads-to-followers-with-octopus

-Harold

On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 11:29 AM, Jack Royal-Gordon <jac...@pobox.com> wrote:
> I have an application that has a little db updating in the foreground (mostly 
> user configuration), and a great deal of db updating in the background 
> (scraping information off the web for 12 hours per day). I'm starting to see 
> the performance of the foreground web requests be affected by the background 
> processing, so I think it's time to setup a Master-Follower configuration so 
> that the foreground "Select"s would go against the slave while the background 
> heavy-lifting takes place against the master (up-to-the-minute 
> synchronization with the followers is not an issue). I've looked at Octopus, 
> DBCharner, Masochism, and Makara, but they all seem to have one or another 
> issue. I'm hoping to require very few changes to my program (in other words, 
> a gem that automatically separates read and writes like Makara), support 
> Rails 3.1.9, and be compatible with Heroku (of course). It seems like most of 
> these packages require configuration in the database.yml file, which I think 
> means they can't be used with Heroku.
>
> Is anyone out there doing something like this on Heroku? What gem are you 
> using, and are you happy with it?
>
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