Rails engine with own DB

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I was wondering if there is a way how to do Rails Engines (as bound contexts) where each engine would have it’s own (ActiveRecord) database.

Referring to article The Modular Monolith: Rails Architecture | by Dan Manges | Medium

Imagine every bound context (Rails engine) would have own DB (like microservices has)

Online store app

  • product listing - own postgres DB

  • orders - own postgres DB

  • basket - own postgres DB

I know that this could teoretically be done on model level:

module YourEngine
  class Post < ActiveRecord::Base
    establish_connection :adapter => 'sqlite3', :database => 'db/your_engine.sqlite3'
  end
end

But is there anything like my_engine/config/database.yml ==> own ActiveRecord database setup for every engine ?

I’m purely just investigating the possibilities for a talk don’t really want to implement something like that

Thank you