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Appendix
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This section provides additional resources and acknowledgments related to ``activerecord-multi-tenant``.

Glossary of Terms and Abbreviations
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- **Multi-tenancy:** A software architecture in which a single instance of software serves multiple tenants.
- **Tenant:** A group of users who share a common access with specific privileges to the software instance.
- **Tenant ID:** A unique identifier for a tenant.


References to External Resources
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- `Official Rails Guide <https://guides.rubyonrails.org/>`_: A comprehensive guide to Ruby on Rails.
- `ActiveRecord Documentation <https://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActiveRecord/Base.html>`_: Detailed documentation for ActiveRecord, the database toolkit used by ``activerecord-multi-tenant``.

Acknowledgments and Credits
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We would like to thank the Ruby on Rails community for their contributions to open source, which have made projects like ``activerecord-multi-tenant`` possible.
This gem was initially based on `acts_as_tenant <https://github.com/ErwinM/acts_as_tenant>`, and still shares some code. We thank the authors for their efforts.