Rails - Mar 2005 - Respecting URL subdir?

I''m just starting with rails and trying out tracks.

I''ve installed it with lighttpd, and trying to run it from a subdir of
the document root. ie rails.domain/tracks/.

link_to seems to respect  this, giving relative URLs. However,
link_image_to, stylesheet_link_tag and javascript_include_tag don''t
seem to respect the /tracks/ bit.


For example:


link_image_to("edit", { :action => "edit", :id =>
@context.id },
:title => "Edit item", :size => "10x10")
gives:
<a href="/tracks/context/edit/1" title="Edit
item"><img alt="Edit"
height="10" src="/images/edit.png" width="10"
/></a>


Am I missing something or is this a bug?


Nicholas

On Fri, 18 Mar 2005, Nicholas Lee wrote:
> I''m just starting with rails and trying out tracks.
>
> I''ve installed it with lighttpd, and trying to run it from a
subdir of
> the document root. ie rails.domain/tracks/.
>
> link_to seems to respect  this, giving relative URLs. However,
> link_image_to, stylesheet_link_tag and javascript_include_tag
don''t
> seem to respect the /tracks/ bit.
>
>
> For example:
>
>
> link_image_to("edit", { :action => "edit", :id =>
@context.id },
> :title => "Edit item", :size => "10x10")
> gives:
> <a href="/tracks/context/edit/1" title="Edit
item"><img alt="Edit"
> height="10" src="/images/edit.png" width="10"
/></a>
>
>
> Am I missing something or is this a bug?
show us your .htaccess and routes.rb.

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On Thu, 17 Mar 2005 15:26:49 -0700 (MST), Ara.T.Howard
<Ara.T.Howard-32lpuo7BZBA@public.gmane.org> wrote:
> show us your .htaccess and routes.rb.
Yes, sorry was just thinking I should have sent that. Plus I was
trying to figure out routes.rb for one particular case.

routes.rb has been modifed to:
  map.connect ''tracks/'', :controller =>
''todo'', :action => ''list''
  map.connect ''tracks/add_item'', :controller =>
''todo'', :action => ''add_item''
  # Install the default route as the lowest priority.
  map.connect ''tracks/:controller/:action/:id''

The important lines from lightttpd.conf are:
alias.url = (
                "/tracks/" =>
"/home/nic/devel/ruby/tracks/public/"
            )

url.rewrite =  (
                "^/tracks$"    => 
"/tracks/dispatch.fcgi?controller=todo&action=list",
                "^/tracks/$"   => 
"/tracks/dispatch.fcgi?controller=todo&action=list",
               
"^/tracks/([\-_a-zA-Z0-9]+)/([\-_a-zA-Z0-9]+)/([\-_a-zA-Z0-9%]+)$"
                    =>
"/tracks/dispatch.fcgi?controller=$1&action=$2&id=$3",
                "^/tracks/([\-_a-zA-Z0-9]+)/([\-_a-zA-Z0-9]+)$"
                    =>
"/tracks/dispatch.fcgi?controller=$1&action=$2")
...
fastcgi.server              = (
...
 ".fcgi" =>
                                ("localhost" =>
                                  (
                                    "socket" =>
"/tmp/rails.socket",
                                    "bin-path" =>
"/home/nic/devel/ruby/tracks/public/dispatch.fcgi"
                                  )

I was trying to follow action_view/helpers/url_helper.rb but I can''t
follow "@controller.send" in url_for, as this function
doesn''t seem to
exist?

I noted this line as well: "image_options = { "src" =>
src.include?("/") ? src : "/images/#{src}" }"

I''ve also discovered that:

http://localhost/tracks/feed/na_feed?token=sljsd&name=admin has some
routing (I guess) issues.


http://manuals.rubyonrails.com/read/chapter/65 isn''t very clear on how
to deal with CGI ? tokens.

Thanks.
Nicholas

On Fri, 18 Mar 2005 11:57:33 +1300, Nicholas Lee
<emptysands-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
wrote:
> 
> http://localhost/tracks/feed/na_feed?token=sljsd&name=admin has some
> routing (I guess) issues.
I figured out that I needed to add the following:

"^/tracks/([\-_a-zA-Z0-9]+)/([\-_a-zA-Z0-9]+)\?(.*)"
                    =>
"/tracks/dispatch.fcgi?controller=$1&action=$2&$3"

as the standard example don''t take into account the addition of
''get params''.

Note, server.error-handler-404 = "/dispatch.fcgi" doesn''t
seem like a
nice way to this.  There should a better method that allows one to
have /tracks/ and /blog/ served by the same lighttpd instances. Rather
than being forced towards tracks.domain and blog.domain or using
apache.

Something like "^/tracks/(.*)" =>
"/tracks/dispatch.fcgi?$1".
Although obviously without the cycle reference.  In fact it seems to
me that dispatch.fcgi should ''know'' when to call app/ or when
to serve
something from public/.  I''m not experienced enough yet to figure out
how do this or why I shouldn''t.

Still trying to figure out my other issue.

Nicholas