I wondered if there were any plugins or methods which allow me to convert resource routes which allow me to place the controller name as a subdomain.
Examples:
map.resources :users
map.resource :account
map.resources :blog
...
example.com/users/mark
example.com/account
example.com/blog/subject
example.com/blog/subject/edit
...
#becomes
users.example.com/mark
account.example.com
blog.example.com/subject
blog.example.com/subject/edit
...
I realise I can do this with named routes but wondered if there were some way to keep my currently succinct routes.rb file.
In Rails, a RESTful route provides a mapping between HTTP verbs, controller actions, and (implicitly) CRUD operations in a database. A single entry in the routing file, such as. map.resources :photos. creates seven different routes in your application: HTTP verb.
Difference between singular resource and resources in Rails routes. So far, we have been using resources to declare a resource. Rails also lets us declare a singular version of it using resource. Rails recommends us to use singular resource when we do not have an identifier.
TIP: If you ever want to list all the routes of your application you can use rails routes on your terminal and if you want to list routes of a specific resource, you can use rails routes | grep hotel . This will list all the routes of Hotel.
I think that subdomain-fu plugin is exacly what you need. With it you will be able to generate routes like
map.resources :universities,
:controller => 'education_universities',
:only => [:index, :show],
:collection => {
:all => :get,
:search => :post
},
:conditions => {:subdomain => 'education'}
This will generate the following:
education.<your_site>.<your_domain>/universities GET
education.<your_site>.<your_domain>/universities/:id GET
education.<your_site>.<your_domain>/universities/all GET
education.<your_site>.<your_domain>/universities/search POST
The best way to do it is to write a simple rack middleware library that rewrites the request headers so that your rails app gets the url you expect but from the user's point of view the url doesn't change. This way you don't have to make any changes to your rails app (or the routes file)
For example the rack lib would rewrite: users.example.com => example.com/users
This gem should do exactly that for you: http://github.com/jtrupiano/rack-rewrite
UPDATED WITH CODE EXAMPLE
Note: this is quickly written, totally untested, but should set you on the right path. Also, I haven't checked out the rack-rewrite gem, which might make this even simpler
# your rack middleware lib. stick this in you lib dir
class RewriteSubdomainToPath
def initialize(app)
@app = app
end
def call(env)
original_host = env['SERVER_NAME']
subdomain = get_subdomain(original_host)
if subdomain
new_host = get_domain(original_host)
env['PATH_INFO'] = [subdomain, env['PATH_INFO']].join('/')
env['HTTP_X_FORWARDED_HOST'] = [original_host, new_host].join(', ')
logger.info("Reroute: mapped #{original_host} => #{new_host}") if defined?(Rails.logger)
end
@app.call(env)
end
def get_subdomain
# code to find a subdomain. simple regex is probably find, but you might need to handle
# different TLD lengths for example .co.uk
# google this, there are lots of examples
end
def get_domain
# get the domain without the subdomain. same comments as above
end
end
# then in an initializer
Rails.application.config.middleware.use RewriteSubdomainToPath
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