I'm attempting to build a somewhat non-standard architecture around the Rails apps that I'm building for a customer. We're looking for a way to be able to share models across projects using RubyGems.
The reasons we want to take this approach are: 1) Shared model logic, without duplication 2) Quick development of new applications 3) Small test suite per application 4) Mini-apps (potentially non-web) without full rails stack
I have seen solutions related to symlinking the app/models folders into each application or using svn:externals, but these both seem suboptimal.
Ideally, I'd like to be able to:
require 'rubygems' require 'models'
and have access to any of my models.
I have experienced some headaches with plugins and I expect to see more. Does anyone have any suggestions for implementing this type of architecture or am I doomed to have one monolithic Rails app?
Best, Michael Guterl