[LRUG] Multiple Rails apps sharing common UI

[Alejandro Andres]

I've done something similar, sepparating the apps by subdomain, using the
same rails app. That way you have a 'namespace' for each app (the
subdomain). For shared data I had an api subdomain (but beware because then
you'll have to use CORS)

Hope it helps :)

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Alejandro Andrés
Partner at redradix.com

On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 11:08 AM, Kerry Buckley <kerryjbuckley at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi LRUG,
>
> I have a small Rails app used by a closed set of internal users, and am
> about to create another, for the same users (or at least an overlapping
> group). They've asked that the two apps (and potentially more over time)
> are presented as one integrated front end, rather than users having to
> visit multiple URLs, log in separately etc.
>
> I'm wondering what the best approach to this is. I don't want to go to the
> extreme of a JS front end with the Rails apps just presenting JSON APIs, so
> the main options seem to be:
>
> * Separate apps with matching layouts, and headers, with some kind of
> single sign-on
> * One big app with namespaced routes, controllers etc to try and keep
> things vaguely separated
> * Separate apps into Rails engines, mounted in a master app that manages
> sessions etc
>
> I'm kind of leaning towards the third option, but I've never used Rails
> engines before, and I'm not 100% sure how that approach would work out. My
> main concern is acceptance/integration tests – it seems to me like they'd
> have to live in the wrapper app as most of them would rely on users,
> sessions etc.
>
> Has anyone had experience of this kind of thing, and if so, which of the
> above approaches would you recommend (or discourage)? Is there a better
> solution I've missed? I'm about to start spiking something with engines to
> see how things fall together, but some opinions from someone who's done it
> in anger would be great!
>
> Thanks,
>
> Kerry
>
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