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When you wish to have a model dynamically bind to the current active database, we can do something like the following

class Model_X extends Orm/Model
{
  protected static $_connection;

  public static function connect($db)
  {
    static::$_connection = $db;
  }

}

Model_X::connect(Config::get('db.active'));

With this set up, we can do something in a controller like:

Config::set('db.active', $db_name); 

This way, we can dynamically set the current active database and then we don't need to worry about modifying the models.