Use node-restful with mongoose.createConnection
I looked in
https://github.com/baugarten/node-restful/blob/master/lib/model.js
I see that the code registers models with mongoose:
var result = mongoose.model.apply(mongoose, arguments)...
passing in the mongoose variable.
So node-restful always looks for a model registered on the default mongoose connection. The one you create by calling:
mongoose.connect("mongodb://localhost/resources");
You'll have to rewrite the node-restful code to allow passing in a connection instead of just using the mongoose instance. I'm not sure how easy or hard that will be do to.