# Integrating one app into another

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/integrating-one-app-into-another/172546>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [July 23, 2009, 7:19am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/integrating-one-app-into-another/172546 "2009-07-23T07:19:57Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![stimpy](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/779978/32.png) [@stimpy](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/stimpy)\
**Post date:** [July 23, 2009, 7:19am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/integrating-one-app-into-another/172546/1 "2009-07-23T07:19:57Z")

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Hi, my name’s Ryan B., you may know me as Radar or “that guy who  
created rBoard”. Today I wish to ask: how do you integrate one app  
into another? Lots of people have come to me and asked the question of  
rBoard but I can’t really help them since I can’t find an easy way to  
do it. Ideas?

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**Author:** ![stimpy](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/779978/32.png) [@stimpy](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/stimpy)\
**Post date:** [July 23, 2009, 8:57am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/integrating-one-app-into-another/172546/2 "2009-07-23T08:57:31Z")

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You should look at rails engines for this.

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**Author:** ![stimpy](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/779978/32.png) [@stimpy](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/stimpy)\
**Post date:** [July 23, 2009, 11:37am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/integrating-one-app-into-another/172546/3 "2009-07-23T11:37:43Z")

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Seems a good way to go - how about having a branch of rboard that is  
the exact same as rboard, just jiggled around to be a plugin?

i can’t see many problems with it being a plugin. Rails seems to have  
plugins with app functionality sorted, though you might have to think  
about routes and assets