Greets! I was wondering if there might be any pitfalls I should be aware of in order to create a domain based white label app.
By that I mean, a single app that will change the layout/css/routes of an app depending on the domain name that accesses it example.com gets example.css, layouts/example-application.html.erb, and whatever /slug-names the user defines for URL friendly CMS pages foobar.com would get foobar.css, layouts/foobar-application.html.erb, and it's /slug-names My reasoning for wanting to do this: 1) The app functionality is the same for all clients, say they are all book stores. Everyone has a book search of local inventory, a CMS to edit content and create /seo-friendly-slugs, and a shopping cart 1b) I have 8 people now on individual apps, but if this grows I don't want to fix bugs across x00 apps 2) None of the clients get a ton of traffic, however I have to run at least 1 instance of each app all the time so no one has to deal with a first load rails boot. It would be nice if I could have x instances of 1 app running serving requests for all the domains. This would let me fill up my VPS and handle spikes from any source while not having to worry about keeping the seat warm for low traffic domains I realize this means I will have to have a bunch of if/case/lookup statements sprinkled about the app to handle all of the switching of layouts/views/css/(potentially js). I'll also need some lookup for the "dynamic routes" to check if /about/foobar exists for example.com, if so show the content otherwise display a 404. Would Redis make sense for this kind of stuff, or should I create some yml configs to hold all of this? I am not a seasoned veteran, only have 2 years of experience with Rails, am I nuts, biting off more than I can chew, or sounds reasonable enough to proceed? Thanks for any advice -Rick -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rubyonrails-talk/02a0306b3780135b9b0fdee65500e970%40ruby-forum.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
