Unable to get the domain in my routes.rb to map custom route

Rails
1

I have tried all night trying to find a way to get the host name which
is
currently being used within my routes.rb file to do some case/when
switching
for specific domains such as this

cgi = ActionController::CgiRequest.new(CGI.new)
case cgi.domain(1)
	when /www/
		map.connect '', :controller => 'public', :action =>

‘index’
when /internal/
map.connect ‘’, :controller => ‘admin’, :action =>
‘index’
end

And have had no success. The domain(1) is empty in this case.

I have tried a similar approach in one of my views, using the
@request.domain(1) and that works PERFECT. Yet I have found no way to
access
the same @request.domain(1) within my routes.rb as the @request object
has
not been loaded yet.

One thought was to use the ENV[‘HTTP_HOST’] variable, but with my
current
LIGHTTPD setup, I do not have this environment variable around.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Regards,
Nathaniel.

 Nathaniel S. H. Brown                           http://nshb.net
2

I am still struggling with this. Anyone able to point me in the right
direction?

-Nb

 Nathaniel S. H. Brown                           http://nshb.net
3

Nathaniel-

I don't think you are going to be able to do this in routes. I could

be wrong but I dont think the request obje3ct is available to routes
in the way that you want. I think its more likely that you could use
a before filter in application.rb to do a redirect to the correct url
based on the subdomain. But I could be misunderstanding what you are
trying to do. Any more details of what you want to accomplish?

Cheers-
-Ezra

On Dec 30, 2005, at 11:12 PM, Nathaniel S. H. Brown wrote:

-----Original Message-----
to do some case/when switching for specific domains such as this

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4

Hi,

Please look at http://dev.rubyonrails.org/browser/plugins and then
account_location
http://dev.rubyonrails.org/browser/plugins/account_location, this is
something your looking for I think…

5

After looking at this, it appears this still doesn’t address the
functionality that I want.

I don’t want to redirect to a specific controller and action, I want to
map
it directly to the root URL within the route.

So http://example.NET/ and http://example.ORG/ can use the same Rails
install, yet have two totally different default routes.

-Nb

 Nathaniel S. H. Brown                           http://nshb.net
6

I have two domains setup on my rails app:

example.COM and example.NET

I want to be able to have a case in the routes, that if the URL in the
location bar is example.NET to use this route:

if hostname.match(/NET/)
map.connect ‘’, :controller => ‘special’, :action => ‘case’
else
map.connect ‘’, :controller => ‘default’, :action => ‘index’
End

That way I can have a new root URL for example.NET, but use the same
application.

This should definitely be available as it is available through the
@request.domain(1) within the view. Question is, if its not available in
a
default variable, how can I populate it manually? I checked out the CGI
module from Ruby, and it mentions to use the ENV[‘HTTP_HOST’] variable,
but
that is empty. So I am led to believe that Rails gets the active domain
through some other mechanism, yet I am unable to find where this is
done.

Thanks.
-Nb

 Nathaniel S. H. Brown                           http://nshb.net
7

Re: problems with Rails routing by hostname, e.g.:

http://www.verybigsite.com/ →
:controller => ‘sites’, :action => ‘list’
http://sanfrancisco.verybigsite.com/ →
:controller => ‘sites’, :action => ‘show’, :id => ‘sanfrancisco’
http://boston.verybigsite.com/ →
:controller => ‘sites’, :action => ‘show’, :id => ‘boston’

I really wanted to make this work in routing, not in URL rewriting,
before_filters, etc. Here’s my understanding of the problem, and
my simple but kludgy solution (suggestions welcomed!).

(running current versions of lighttpd, fastcgi, and rails)

First of all, lighttpd doesn’t seem to pass the useful bits of the
HTTP request header in environment variables. Or perhaps FastCGI
doesn’t forward them along to Rails. This might be a configuration
problem.

Anyway, Rails builds the route map at startup, and (in development
mode ONLY) before each request. The CGI request is fully parsed
before the route is followed, but since routes are not normally
reloaded for each request, there would be no value in passing the
request data for routing decision making…so it isn’t.

So we have to do two things:

  • Store the request data somewhere persistent (or pass it to
    the routing code)
  • Reload the routes for each request

Depending on your circumstances, this might cause an unacceptable
performance hit. My routes are lightweight, so I decided to give
it a spin. Very limited testing suggests that reloading routes
is not a big deal at all.

Here’s what I did…

A couple of small changes to dispatcher.rb (my RubyGems install
puts it in /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-1.0.0/lib):

— dispatcher.rb-orig Fri Jan 13 16:37:42 2006
+++ dispatcher.rb Fri Jan 13 16:38:29 2006
@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@
def dispatch(cgi = nil, session_options =
ActionController::CgiRequest::DEFAULT_SESSION_OPTIONS, output = $stdout)
if cgi ||= new_cgi(output)
request, response = ActionController::CgiRequest.new(cgi,
session_options), ActionController::CgiResponse.new(cgi)

  •    ENV['REQUEST_HOST']=request.host ## set env variable
   prepare_application
   ActionController::Routing::Routes.recognize!(request).process(request,

response).out(output)
end
@@ -66,7 +67,7 @@
end

   def prepare_application

  •    ActionController::Routing::Routes.reload if Dependencies.load?

  •    ActionController::Routing::Routes.reload ## force reload
   prepare_breakpoint
   Controllers.const_load!(:ApplicationController, "application")

unless Controllers.const_defined?(:ApplicationController)
end

And then in config/routes.rb:

hostname=ENV[‘REQUEST_HOST’]
if hostname and hostname != ‘bigsite.com’ and hostname !=
‘www.bigsite.com’
cityname = hostname.split(‘.’).first
map.connect ‘’, :controller => ‘sites’, :action => ‘show’, :id =>
cityname
else
map.connect ‘’, :controller => ‘sites’, :action => ‘list’
end

…it works. Better ideas welcomed!

Andrew