[LRUG] Multiple Rails apps sharing common UI

[Alejandro Andres]

I've had horrible experiences using engines, like... a common core for a
set of applications that are all similar, and at the end it's an inferno of
namespacing models and stuff (A::B::C...) and configuration for the engine.

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Alejandro Andrés
Partner at redradix.com

On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 11:27 AM, Kerry Buckley <kerryjbuckley at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 10:21 AM, Stuart Harrison <pezholio at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Might also be worth looking at Slimmer, built by GDS
>> https://github.com/alphagov/slimmer
>>
>> It’s a bit of Rack middleware that allows you to apply a standard header
>> and footer, served from a different host. For example, the header and
>> footer for http://theodi.org/ is served via
>> http://static.theodi.org/templates/www.html.erb - we probably don’t use
>> it to the best of its ability, but it sounds like it would suit your needs
>> perfectly. Our static app is a rails app, but it could just as easily be a
>> simple sinatra app, or even just static HTML.
>>
>
> Thanks – looks like that would neatly take care of the look-and-feel
> stuff, and I'd only have to worry about single sign-on. That looks like one
> vote for separate apps, one for namespacing within one app (thanks
> Alejandro), and none for engines, which is increasing my wariness about
> using them.
>
> Kerry
>
>
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