Create and run multiple rails apps from within a rails app

Rails
1

Hi,

I am hoping to build a rails app that can create other rails apps and
run them. Basically the user fills in some parameters and a new rails
app is generated. Once generated, then the new application is running.

I have no problem putting together the code that generates the new
app. However, I am having trouble with figuring out how to run the new
applications. I see two main options:

  1. Reconfigure my web server to support the new app. This is not my
    preference because I would not like to change my code to support
    different hosting environments (development/production).

  2. Having my main rails app accept all the requests, then send them on
    to the new app. I really don’t know how this would work. Is it
    possible? Is it reasonable?

All of the apps will be low-traffic.

Thanks!

2

If it low traffic why not install it on subdomain on the same host?

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3

Thanks for the reply!

I am hoping to use the same host. However, I want the entire
application to be set up programmatically. I know I could just
reconfigure the webserver, but I would really like to keep my
implementation webserver agnostic (if possible).

As for subdomains, they would certainly look very nice. However, I
don’t know if this will be possible without making my implementation
webserver-specific. Please let me know if I am wrong!

Cheers

4

Check out adv rails recipes. It shows how to use subdomains in rails
apps.

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5

Advanced Rails Recipes has been on my wish list since Christmas, but
Amazon isn’t shipping it to Canada yet :frowning:

I did check out this page
http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages/HowToUseSubdomainsAsAccountKeys

That was kind of useful, but it doesn’t really address the whole
issue. I need these to be completely separate rails apps. Each one
gets its own database, etc.

Thanks!