I use Flare as a plugin in this manner for Blacklight - http://
aleph.lib.virginia.edu/blacklight - :
$ svn proplist -v vendor/plugins/
Properties on 'vendor/plugins':
svn:externals : flare http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/lucene/solr/
trunk/client/ruby/flare/vendor/plugins/flare/
This of course relies on you using Subversion for your project.
Actually locally I override that and symlink it to my local flare
development directory, so I don't have to commit changes to flare and
then update blacklight to test things out. I just change it and
reload/refresh.
$ ls -l vendor/plugins/
total 8
drwxr-xr-x 7 erik erik 238 Apr 6 16:53 exception_notification
lrwxr-xr-x 1 erik erik 38 Apr 12 20:53 flare -> /Users/erik/
flare/vendor/plugins/flare
drwxr-xr-x 5 erik erik 170 Apr 6 16:53 solr-ruby
I don't recommend having Flare as a separate Rails app. It was
always intended to be used as a plugin inside of your own custom
Rails application, such that it would benefit from tight integration
like you're after with sessions, not to mention the UI with layouts,
etc.
If folks use flare like a plugin, it'll be much easier for us to see
where to aim our efforts for evolving it. For example, a lot of the
UI pieces can be generalized into views within the plugin, so your
own Rails app wouldn't need to have templates for the stock stuff
like facet lists with pie charts, etc. We'll make high-level helpers
that generate the view which can be easily overridden for
customizations. That's the idea!
Erik
On May 2, 2007, at 6:30 AM, Antonio Eggberg wrote:
Hi:
First of all I am no sessions expert so please advice if you notice
something is wrong. Having
said that
here is my problem:
1. I have a login/logout rails app. The apps job is to authorize
folks and re-direct folks to
other rails app.
2. I am using 1 database for simplicity
3. I have flare as a seperate rails app which checks a user from
the login app and provides flare
search service.
I been having trouble syncing the two app due to session mismatch.
i.e Flare app adds some session
which
are not available in login app. So the easiest solution was to have
flare plugin in login app as
well as call flare
in the login controller thus getting all the session variables in
sync. This works but I am not
sure what kind
of side effect it might have.. i.e performance etc.
How are you guys doing it? for me login/logout app has to be a
separate app cos it might be in a
different machine
basically the idea is a "poor mans single sign-on"
This is not really flare related but I would very greatfull to hear
your views about it.
Regards
A
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