Several 'app' directories?

Rails
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Hello, I’m new to ROR and my first wonder is to understand how to
organize my application “per module”…

Imagine I want to build a web site including :

  • the web site by itself
  • a forum
  • a wiki
  • a shop

I would like to avoid putting all the controllers, views and models in
the same app directories, polluting the subdirs with prefixed files like
wiki_, shop_, forum_* -

All the modules must share the same resources on the app_root directory
(components, config, db, doc, and the like)

In fact, what I want to do is
http://myapp.com/module/controller/action
and not only

Which would be simply related to the subdirs
/app_root/app/module/controller
/app_root/app/module/views
/app_root/app/module/models
/app_root/app/module/helpers

Is it just a matter of playing with routes.rb ?

Could someone show me how to do ?

Thank you

Note : I allways asked these question on another ror forum and tought at
first that I needed was see every module as a component but I think this
is not the right solution. In the above example, the components would be
more ‘low level’ (eg. authentification component)…

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This is exactly what Rails Engines lets you do:

http://rails-engines.org

  • james

On 3/21/06, Christophe C. [email protected] wrote:

the same app directories, polluting the subdirs with prefixed files like
Which would be simply related to the subdirs

http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails

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  • J *
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Thank you James !
It took me 3 hours to setup “engines” and created a simple engine but in
fact it wasn’t that hard…

I just wonder why “engines” is not part of ROR itself ? It seems so
sensible to me