Hello,
I am getting ready to start building an intranet for a small company i
work for. I have a question about the general architecture of such a
thing. the intranet itself will contain multiple applications for
various departments. what i am trying to figure out is if i should start
by making each application as a seperate rails project or attempt to
design it from the top down, all in one project. I have a feeling i am
not being very clear here so please feel free to ask questions, also
alot of details are murky as i am just starting this.
On Oct 28, 7:51 pm, Eric S. [email protected]
wrote:
Hello,
I am getting ready to start building an intranet for a small company i
work for. I have a question about the general architecture of such a
thing. the intranet itself will contain multiple applications for
various departments. what i am trying to figure out is if i should start
by making each application as a seperate rails project or attempt to
design it from the top down, all in one project. I have a feeling i am
not being very clear here so please feel free to ask questions, also
alot of details are murky as i am just starting this.
Broadly speaking I’m on the side of multiple smaller rails apps than
one huge one. Easier to write, easier to maintain. The answer also
depends to an extent on what levels of interaction you need between
the apps.
Fred
Frederick C. wrote:
On Oct 28, 7:51�pm, Eric S. [email protected]
Broadly speaking I’m on the side of multiple smaller rails apps than
one huge one. Easier to write, easier to maintain. The answer also
depends to an extent on what levels of interaction you need between
the apps.
Fred
Would you just link them together with generic html links into there
respective controllers? or is there a way to link them together with
rails?
my generic plan atm is to have a main page with our logo and a
navigation bar for each department, then under that a feed aggrigator
with industry news in it.
logo
finance hr it sales etc
industry feed industry feed local weather
asci doesn’t do many things justice
each department listed above will have a dropdown menu with a few items
in it that would be the applications.
this part will also obviously be a rails app
Eric S. wrote:
Hello,
I am getting ready to start building an intranet for a small company i
work for. I have a question about the general architecture of such a
thing. the intranet itself will contain multiple applications for
various departments. what i am trying to figure out is if i should start
by making each application as a seperate rails project or attempt to
design it from the top down, all in one project. I have a feeling i am
not being very clear here so please feel free to ask questions, also
alot of details are murky as i am just starting this.
I would do one app and write each sub-application as a plugin. That will
make the whole thing very re-usable.
On 28 Oct 2008, at 20:06, Eric S. wrote:
Would you just link them together with generic html links into there
respective controllers? or is there a way to link them together with
rails?
pretty much just generic stuff.
Fred