The ShardSelector Middleware provides a framework for automatically swapping shards. Rails provides a basic framework to determine which shard to switch to and allows for applications to write custom strategies for swapping if needed.

The ShardSelector takes a set of options (currently only `lock` is supported) that can be used by the middleware to alter behavior. `lock` is true by default and will prohibit the request from switching shards once inside the block. If `lock` is false, then shard swapping will be allowed. For tenant based sharding, `lock` should always be true to prevent application code from mistakenly switching between tenants.

Options can be set in the config:

config.active_record.shard_selector = { lock: true }

Applications must also provide the code for the resolver as it depends on application specific models. An example resolver would look like this:

config.active_record.shard_resolver = ->(request) {
  subdomain = request.subdomain
  tenant = Tenant.find_by_subdomain!(subdomain)
  tenant.shard
}