Relative Path in a Rails Application

[Sean Carey]

I have run into a small snag, and a fear that it may be a simple question, but we will see. 

My Environment: 

nginx/mongrel/rails

Most people I know use a ROOT app for their rails application, but I would like my app to sit under a relative path. The reason I want a relative path is that we will have many rails apps, and I want to Layer7/Proxy to backend servers, and not have virtual hosts for each app. 

ie: 

www.myapp.com/tj/   --> would proxy to one server

www.myapp.com/tk/  --> would proxy to another server

Now this works all fine and good except rails cannot find the route: 

/tj/

/tk/

This is the error that I am getting: 

ActionController::RoutingError (No route matches "/tj/" with {:method=>:get}):

    /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-2.0.2/lib/action_controller/routing.rb:1441:in `recognize_path'

    /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-2.0.2/lib/action_controller/routing.rb:1424:in `recognize'

    /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-2.0.2/lib/action_controller/dispatcher.rb:170:in `handle_request'

 

So, my question: 

How do I set this relative path in my rails application?

I tried:

environment.rb

RAILS_RELATIVE_URL_ROOT='/tj/'

This did not help. Any advice would be great. 

/sc 

[Tyler McMullen]

Assuming you're using mongrel_cluster... You can add the following to it:

prefix: /tj

Hope that helps.


-- Tyler

[Vikram B.Kumar]

You can also try setting the PATH_PREFIX in environment.rb or setting :path_prefix in route.rb.

 

More information at http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages/HowToInstallApplicationsInSubdirectories

 

If you do so, stick to the link/url generators instead of hardcoding them in your templates.

 

Vikram

[Sean Carey]

Prefix in mongrel_cluster worked. Thanks so much!

/sc

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