How to deploy multiple apps on one Mac OSX development machine...

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I have split off the User Authentication of our main application into it’s own application. I would like have this called from the main application. How can I have multiple instances of “script/server” running when there’s only one localhost:3000?

I believe I can then simple switch applications by routing.

Thanks.

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you can use ./script/server -p 4000

LaughingNinja wrote:

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Thanks. That was easy :slight_smile:

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Choose a different port? LOL

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If you use Mac OS X, you could use Passenger Preference Pane: http://www.fngtps.com/2008/12/passenger-preference-pane-v1-2

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That would me my long term recommendation. Passenger makes it easy to manage multiple Rails or Rack Apps

Mathieu Rousseau wrote:

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Thanks for all your input!

I'm using the alternate port and it's working. However, I now have another issue: How can I send the Session: hash to the other application. We have a Calendar application in house where users can sign up for training classes. So, once the User is authorized in the User Authentication app, I'm redirecting to the calendar app. I need the Session: which contains the User object to tie the user to a lesson.

What's your suggestion for passing this between apps?

Thanks again.

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here are some resources that can get you started

http://en.oreilly.com/railseurope2008/public/schedule/detail/3557 (includes a ppt) http://github.com/fcheung/rails_conf_demo/tree/master

although i think for your needs, you could just exploit the RESTful actions design in Rails. For eg, your Calendar app should request authentication by specifying a specific controller action in the Authentication app (using complete URL, As Far As I Know) and your Authentication app should return the Session hash.