# Creating a rails app within a rails app **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby\ **Created:** [February 5, 2007, 2:00am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/creating-a-rails-app-within-a-rails-app/84473 "2007-02-05T02:00:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![libsfan01](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/779978/32.png) [@libsfan01](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/libsfan01)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2007, 2:00am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/creating-a-rails-app-within-a-rails-app/84473/1 "2007-02-05T02:00:35Z")
hi all due to hosting constraints, i need to deploy a rails site within an existing rails site. where do i need to “cd” to, to issue the rails command to generate the site? i’ve tried the public folder but that doesn’t appear to be working. thanks marc ---
**Author:** ![libsfan01](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/779978/32.png) [@libsfan01](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/libsfan01)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2007, 2:11am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/creating-a-rails-app-within-a-rails-app/84473/2 "2007-02-05T02:11:39Z")
On 2/4/07, libsfan01 [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > thanks > > marc Might check the rails list. [http://www.ruby-forum.com/topic/3552](http://www.ruby-forum.com/topic/3552) mirror: [http://www.ruby-forum.com/forum/3](http://www.ruby-forum.com/forum/3) or possibly here: [http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails](http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails) and if there’s anything I’ve left out, you can search for it here: [http://rubykitchensink.ca/](http://rubykitchensink.ca/) ---
**Author:** ![libsfan01](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/779978/32.png) [@libsfan01](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/libsfan01)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2007, 7:05am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/creating-a-rails-app-within-a-rails-app/84473/3 "2007-02-05T07:05:50Z")
On Feb 4, 5:56 pm, “libsfan01” [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > due to hosting constraints, i need to deploy a rails site within an > existing rails site. > > where do i need to “cd” to, to issue the rails command to generate the > site? i’ve tried the public folder but that doesn’t appear to be > working. Hello. The ruby-talk mailing list (which also appears as the comp.lang.ruby newsgroup) is for discussion of the Ruby language in general. For questions about Ruby on Rails (a web framework that happens to use the Ruby language), you’ll probably want to ask on the Rails group: [http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk](http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk) ---
**Author:** ![libsfan01](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/779978/32.png) [@libsfan01](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/libsfan01)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2007, 8:53am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/creating-a-rails-app-within-a-rails-app/84473/4 "2007-02-05T08:53:56Z")
On 2/5/07, libsfan01 [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > hi all > > due to hosting constraints, i need to deploy a rails site within an > existing rails site. > > where do i need to “cd” to, to issue the rails command to generate the > site? i’ve tried the public folder but that doesn’t appear to be > working. Hi, I suppose you don’t generate it within some folder of the main site. These are possibilities that I can think of (note that I’m not a railsist 😉 so there might be other options): 1. generate theme side by side, and link them via .htaccess/httpd.conf and mod\_rewrite 2. if they do not overlap, merge them into one site (i.e. put everything in one place and fix routing so everything appears where it should) 3. put the other site into some unimportant folder (vendor) or create separate folder somewhere in the main app top folder. They do the magic with .htaccess/httpd.conf. You don’t want to put the site in the ‘public\_html’ dir cause that would reveal your sources to public. OTOH, you need the the public dir of your other site to be visible. So you need to use mod\_rewrite, symlinks or copying the files where they belong. As I said, there might be other options.