URLs in IIS - Please look at my code and offer suggestions!

Many thanks to Florian F. for the code snippet for handling URL
writing… It gave me an idea on how to solve my problem with IIS +
Subfolders / Apache + SCGI + subfolders

This is my first attempt at trying to override anything in Rails so
please be kind :slight_smile:

Pick it apart though… Is this the right way to go about this code-wise
or is there something else I should be looking at, like maybe
AbstractRequest#relative_url_root() as was suggested on the dev site?
Should this be a plugin rather than doing what I’m doing?

If you need background information on this, see this posting

http://dev.rubyonrails.com/ticket/2602

Enough boring-ness. Here’s the code (again, borrowed much from Florian’s
example). I’m simply requiring this file from the production
environment.rb file. Everything “appears” to work as expected but I want
to see if anyone can see any potential problems.

vender/vdir_fix.rb

configure this for each application… Maybe this should go in

environment.rb as well?

BASE_URL = ‘/myvdirname’

module ActionController

Need this so stylesheets / JS files / images can be found

ActionController::Base.asset_host = BASE_URL

class UrlRewriter
alias old_rewrite_url rewrite_url

 # url writing using the base dir specified above
 def rewrite_url(path, options)

   url = old_rewrite_url(path, options)

   # let's dump the protocol and the host if it's a local url....
   # This seemed necessary for redirect_to links.
   url = url.gsub(@request.protocol + @request.host_with_port, '')

 #now let's add the base_url to the url.
   url = BASE_URL + url
   url  # return
 end

end
end

Many thanks in advance to anyone who can help. We’re closer than ever to
being able to use Rails in our production environment!

-Brian H.