Rails - Feb 2006 - Question about interaction of external processes and a Rails app

Hi,

I am planing and developing a larger rails app, where all the
administration, configuration is done through the rails app. And the
rails apps primary purpose is to display and search through data stored
in a database.

Now, I have to kinds of tasks which are located outside of the rails
app.

- parsing and importing data delivered externaly from locations
  configured in the administration part of the rails app
- exporting data from the database to a workflow starting behind the
  rails app

So, it is obvious to me, that my importer and exporter needs access to
the model I configure for my rails app. Is there a point inside rails
where I can integrate such external apps into my rails app? I mean, can
I easily make the model and so on visible to some script outside of the
actual web application? Any best practice guides or suggestions on this?

Best regards,
Oliver

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Oliver Andrich --- oliver.andrich@gmail.com --- http://roughbook.de/

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-- Tom Mornini


On Feb 8, 2006, at 1:53 AM, Oliver Andrich wrote:
> I mean, can
> I easily make the model and so on visible to some script outside of  
> the
> actual web application?