Rails - Feb 2006 - Getting Started with Site Redesign and RoR

Hello all:

I am in the process of redesigning my site and was thinking about 
incorporating RoR into the overall structure.  However, there are 
multiple things I would like to create with Rails, namely a gallery, a 
weblog, and portfolio management system.  Given that I am going to be 
using a lot of RoR, what is the best way to accomplish this task?  Here 
are some random things that have come up and I am hoping some of you 
guys/gals can help:

1. Should I create a separate web app for each of the aforementioned 
items?  Then I would have separate directories for each with their own 
public folders, stylesheets, etc.

2. Should I lump everything into one master CMS system and have that be 
my main app and then create controllers for each of the other items?

3. I am having trouble getting my head around the whole folder structure 
thing.  Let''s say I have my website on my local computer for testing
at:

../apache/htdocs/mysite/public/

Then I have everything that I want the public to see under that folder 
(i.e. images, css, etc.).  However, I have my RoR apps at:

../apache/htdocs/mysite/apps/

I have tried using symbolic links to map from the apps/gallery/public 
folder to /mysite/public/gallery/ and the page will display but it is 
still trying to find the site assets under apps/gallery/public/.

Is there a way to have your app at one location and everything else 
under another?

Ideally I would like my site to simply have urls such as:

mysite.com/gallery, mysite.com/journal, mysite.com/portfolio

I know this was long and I probably didn''t explain myself very well. 
If
further clarification is needed please let me know.

Thanks,

John

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Hi John,

On 1.2.2006, at 21.00, John Smith wrote:
>
> Ideally I would like my site to simply have urls such as:
>
> mysite.com/gallery, mysite.com/journal, mysite.com/portfolio
Don''t get hung up on urls, it''s just a matter of routing [1]
when you
build your app. Basically, you put everything static under yourapp/ 
public and all the dynamic stuff can be configured how you want to.

I would in your case just create one application and split it in  
modules/controllers for your different tasks.

//jarkko

[1] http://manuals.rubyonrails.com/read/chapter/65

--
Jarkko Laine
http://jlaine.net
http://odesign.fi

Put ur controllers under packages

/app/controllers/journal

Then in ur ruote.rb , you will be map

/journal/* =>  Journal::CreateController

Something of that sort

Rgds,
--Siva Jagadeesan
http://www.varcasa.com/
My First Rails Project.
Education Through Collabration
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