Adding functionality to an app in modular fashion?

Rails
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Building a Rails app entails creating files in multiple locations.
Config
dir, App, Views, Layouts, etc.

If I have an existing application app framework, is there a way to add a
new feature (for example, contracts management) where the files
for the new feature are bundled together and not scattered willy-nilly
throughout the Rails application directory tree?

Pros? Cons?

Thanks,

Joe

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On Sunday, 2 September 2012 18:43:23 UTC-5, jmcguckin wrote:

Building a Rails app entails creating files in multiple locations. Config
dir, App, Views, Layouts, etc.

If I have an existing application app framework, is there a way to add a
new feature (for example, contracts management) where the files
for the new feature are bundled together and not scattered willy-nilly
throughout the Rails application directory tree?

Build it as a Rails engine, so that it is its own application but can be
included into your new applications.

Pros? Cons?

The pros and cons are only something you can come up with.