proxy, routes.rb, and urls

rubyonrails-talk
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Wondering if this is possible in an elegant global way to adjust RoR's urls...

Basically what I would like to do is make Rails aware that it needs to have to adjust all the urls that refer to itself by a preceeding "/ rails" in the urls. I've tried things in routes.rb such as "map.test 'rails/:controller, :action'", etc.., but to no avail. Currently the only way I've been able to do this is to more or less hard code it ( which may not be too bad of a thing in this case ) in any .rhtml files with a link_to adjustment, as in <%= link_to "newBYE", :controller => "/rails/hello", :action => "list_times" %>

Not knowing RoR well enough yet to know if this is going to be a problem.. but it seems to me a routes.rb generating solution would be better. I wouldn't think this would be that hard, but perhaps it's to much away from "convention over configuration".

The reason I want to do this is because at first we'll be using Apache to proxy Rails requests, and the '/rails' is the flag for Apache to hit on the reverse proxy.

Thanks for any information,

-Dave

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jetskers wrote:

Wondering if this is possible in an elegant global way to adjust RoR's urls...

Basically what I would like to do is make Rails aware that it needs to have to adjust all the urls that refer to itself by a preceeding "/ rails" in the urls. I've tried things in routes.rb such as "map.test 'rails/:controller, :action'", etc.., but to no avail. Currently the only way I've been able to do this is to more or less hard code it ( which may not be too bad of a thing in this case ) in any .rhtml files with a link_to adjustment, as in <%= link_to "newBYE", :controller => "/rails/hello", :action => "list_times" %>

Not knowing RoR well enough yet to know if this is going to be a problem.. but it seems to me a routes.rb generating solution would be better. I wouldn't think this would be that hard, but perhaps it's to much away from "convention over configuration".

The reason I want to do this is because at first we'll be using Apache to proxy Rails requests, and the '/rails' is the flag for Apache to hit on the reverse proxy.

Thanks for any information,

-Dave

Since you'll be using Apache you can have it do the work for you by doing something like:

ProxyPass /rails http://127.0.0.1:3000/ ProxyPassReverse /rails http://127.0.0.1:3000/

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Well, yes, of course, and that's what I'm doing.

But how do I tell applications in rails to write links that refer to applications written in rails to put in /rails in those url's?

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jetskers wrote:

Well, yes, of course, and that's what I'm doing.

But how do I tell applications in rails to write links that refer to applications written in rails to put in /rails in those url's?

If you are using Mongrel you can do it like this:

mongrel_rails start -d -p 3000 \       -a 127.0.0.1 \       -e production \       --prefix /rails

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Well, yes, of course, and that's what I'm doing.

But how do I tell applications in rails to write links that refer to applications written in rails to put in /rails in those url's?

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Well, yes, of course, and that's what I'm doing.

But how do I tell applications in rails to write links that refer to applications written in rails to put in /rails in those url's?

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oops... shouldn't be hitting that reload button.