# Two aplications one database **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [June 10, 2009, 8:31am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/two-aplications-one-database/169919 "2009-06-10T08:31:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![bakkhoz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/d6d6ee/32.png) [@bakkhoz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/bakkhoz)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2009, 8:31am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/two-aplications-one-database/169919/1 "2009-06-10T08:31:34Z")
How works Rails if I want to do 2 aplications thath use the same database, I don’t know how to manage the migrations. ---
**Author:** ![bakkhoz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/d6d6ee/32.png) [@bakkhoz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/bakkhoz)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2009, 12:23pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/two-aplications-one-database/169919/2 "2009-06-10T12:23:00Z")
You’ll have to choose one of the projects to be the main one and manage the migrations from there. We were in this situation before but over time our 2 applications started to share many stuff and made more sense as one. We ended up merging it. Regards, Leonardo Borges > **[Leonardo Borges](http://leonardoborges.com/)** > > Code. Leadership. AI. On Jun 10, 8:30 am, Sergio A. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) ---
**Author:** ![bakkhoz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/d6d6ee/32.png) [@bakkhoz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/bakkhoz)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2009, 2:16pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/two-aplications-one-database/169919/3 "2009-06-10T14:16:37Z")
Sergio A. wrote: > How works Rails if I want to do 2 aplications thath use the same > database, I don’t know how to manage the migrations. It might take some extra book-keeping on your part if you ever want to support caches in your applications.