Important Notice: Octopus will enter into maintainance mode once Rails 6 is released - since Rails 6 will include all the features for Database Sharding / Replication into Rails Core (PR: rails/rails#34052). Once the first version of Rails 6 beta is released, there will be a migration guide to help users migrate from Octopus to Rails 6. Octopus - Easy Database Sharding for ActiveRecord Octopus is