Can Rails act as a reverse proxy for hosting a domain on mysite?

Question

I have mysite.com. Currently my blog is blog.mysite.com

I want my blog to be: mysite.com/blog - which would point to a tumblr blog.

Is it possible to use Rails as a reverse proxy that would main the URL structure at mysite.com/blog and show tumblr content, maintaining the mysite.com/blog url and article urls... Not redirecting to tumblr's URL?

Thanks

Answer 1

Yes it is possible but a very heavy solution. What you need to do is define method on controller that would fetch the remote content and render it.

require 'net/http'

class TunblrController<ApplicationController
  def index
    uri = URI('http://tumlbr.com/myblog')
    html = Net::HTTP.get(uri)
    render :html=>html
  end
end

that being said, you are much better off doing it using Nginx, HAProxy or other similar solutions