ActionController::Base.asset_host inheritance

[Jacob Refstrup]

Hi,

I have an app where I have both Facebook controllers and normal Rails
controllers side by side; but Facebooker likes to set
ActionController::Base.asset_host = callback_url; for my app I moved
that into my facebook controller but still in my "normal app" controller
it still have asset_host == callback_url. Well -- technically that's
only true if both controllers are loaded.

Should asset_host be declared as class_inherited_accessor (rather than
cattr_accessor) -- or am I being too picky about wanting it to be
correct when both controllers are loaded?

- Jacob

[matthewr...@gmail.com]

I like the idea of having apache setup to deal with the facebook and
web bits of the applications seperately.

two different VirtualHosts set up in apache.

facebook.mydomain.com
and
www.mydomain.com

thereby you can balance load between the two installations of the app,
and avoid a spike in Facebook requests killing your whole application.

Then you can pass an environment variable to the server.

SetEnv IS_FACEBOOK true

And use this in your code to determine whether to set the asset_host
"if ENV["IS_FACEBOOK"]" or something.

But as a simple alternative, it probably makes sense for asset_host to
be a class_inherited_accessor.
:)

[José Valim]

I like that. :)
Maybe if you provide a patch, which might be easy, it could go into
core.

[Michael Koziarski]

> Should asset_host be declared as class_inherited_accessor (rather than
> cattr_accessor) -- or am I being too picky about wanting it to be
> correct when both controllers are loaded?

It wouldn't be *quite* that easy as we cache the calls to
path_to_image etc. So while you changed the value, you may not see
that reflected in the generated markup. So the simple solution won't
work.

A more full-featured solution would be to also move that cache into an
inheritable accessor, but that would likely use up a lot of memory.
You could also investigate making the asset caching configured
independently of the general caching setup, and then turn it off if
you wanted to override the settings.

--
Cheers

Koz