Rails routing to handle multiple domains on single application

Question

I've been unable to find a workable solution to this problem, despite several similar questions here and elsewhere. It seems likely that this question hasn't been answered for Rails 3, so here goes:

I have an application that currently allows users to create their own subdomain that contains their instance of the application. While in Rails 2 you were best served using the subdomain-fu gem, in version 3 it's dramatically simpler, as per the Railscast -- http://railscasts.com/episodes/221-subdomains-in-rails-3.

That's good stuff, but I also want to provide the option for users to associate their own domain name with their account. So while they might have http://userx.mydomain.com, I'd like them to choose to have http://userx.com associated as well.

I found a few references to doing this in Rails 2, but those techniques don't appear to work anymore (particularly this one: https://feefighters.com/blog/hosting-multiple-domains-from-a-single-rails-app/).

Can anyone recommend a way to use routes to accept an arbitrary domain and pass it along to a controller so I can show the appropriate content?

Update: I've gotten most of an answer now, thanks to Leonid's timely response, and a fresh look at the code. It ultimately required an addition to the existing Subdomain code that I was using (from the Railscast solution) and then adding a bit to routes.rb. I'm not all the way there yet but I want to post what I have so far.

In lib/subdomain.rb:

class Subdomain   def self.matches?(request)     request.subdomain.present? && request.subdomain != "www"   end end  class Domain   def self.matches?(request)     request.domain.present? && request.domain != "mydomain.com"   end end 

I've added the second class in imitation of the first, which is known working. I simply add a condition that ensures that the incoming domain is not the one for which I'm hosting the main site.

This class is used in routes.rb:

require 'subdomain' constraints(Domain) do   match '/' => 'blogs#show' end  constraints(Subdomain) do   match '/' => 'blogs#show' end 

Here, I'm prepending the existing subdomain code (again, it's working fine) with a stanza to check for the Domain. If this server responds to that domain and it's not the one under which the main site operates, forward to the specified controller.

And while that appears to be working, I don't quite have the whole thing working yet, but I think this particular problem has been solved.

Answer 1

It's actually simpler in Rails 3, as per http://guides.rubyonrails.org/routing.html#advanced-constraints:

1) define a custom constraint class in lib/domain_constraint.rb:

class DomainConstraint   def initialize(domain)     @domains = [domain].flatten   end    def matches?(request)     @domains.include? request.domain   end end 

2) use the class in your routes with the new block syntax

constraints DomainConstraint.new('mydomain.com') do   root :to => 'mydomain#index' end  root :to => 'main#index' 

or the old-fashioned option syntax

root :to => 'mydomain#index', :constraints => DomainConstraint.new('mydomain.com') 

Answer 2

In Rails 5, you can simply do this in your routes:

constraints subdomain: 'blogs' do   match '/' => 'blogs#show' end