Kudos to Dr. Nic for this one. At least a discussion filled with arrogance and finger-pointing turned out something useful.
I worked on a similar problem two weeks ago and came up with a pretty similar solution, though without the fanciness of just defining new databases in database.yml and having the classes in corresponding modules automatically.
To sum up: no jealousy, I’m just glad other’s have taken a very similar approach. I just wish, Alex Payne of Twitter would’ve given this interview a little earlier.