# Whats the best way to do this

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/whats-the-best-way-to-do-this/113694>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [September 4, 2007, 2:03am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/whats-the-best-way-to-do-this/113694 "2007-09-04T02:03:30Z")\
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**Author:** ![Jables](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/58956e/32.png) [@Jables](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Jables)\
**Post date:** [September 4, 2007, 2:03am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/whats-the-best-way-to-do-this/113694/1 "2007-09-04T02:03:30Z")

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I am adding a forum to my rails app, huge number of controllers,  
views, models, and tables. What is best practice here? Just add all  
the controllers, etc to my current app? Modularize all the  
controllers/models/views into forum modules? Run the forum as a  
seperate app? Thanks for any advice.

JB

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**Author:** ![Jables](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/58956e/32.png) [@Jables](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Jables)\
**Post date:** [September 4, 2007, 6:00am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/whats-the-best-way-to-do-this/113694/2 "2007-09-04T06:00:48Z")

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Personally I’d run it as a separate app. If your expecting lots of  
traffic on the forum, it’s easier if it’s a separate app to maintain  
it all on it’s own. As it will be on it’s own mongrel process etc.

cam