Rails Restful Routing and Subdomains

Question

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:

Answer 1

As ileitch mentioned you can do this without extra gems it's really simple actually.

I have a standard fresh rails app with a fresh user scaffold and a dashboard controller for my admin so I just go:

constraints :subdomain => 'admin' do
    scope :subdomain => 'admin' do
        resources :users

        root :to => "dashboard#index" 
    end
end

So this goes from this:

• site.com/users

to this :

• admin.site.com/users

you can include another root :to => "{controller}#{action}" outside of that constraint and scope for site.com which could be say a pages controller. That would get you this:

constraints :subdomain => 'admin' do
    scope :subdomain => 'admin' do
        resources :users

        root :to => "dashboard#index" 
    end
end

root :to => "pages#index"

This will then resolve:

• site.com
• admin.site.com
• admin.site.com/users