Rails Subdomain

Subdomains in rails are still a bit hairy.

This is a growing collection of helpers and monkey patches to make it better(tm).

My::Application.routes.draw do
  subdomain /\A(www|)\Z/, default: "www" do
    root to: "home#show"
  end

  subdomain :admin, module: "admin", as: "admin" do
    root to: "admin/dashboard#show"
  end
end

This will route http://mydomain.com and http://www.mydomain.com in the first subdomain scope, and http://admin.mydomain.com in the second scope. If you have different number of TLDs (the .com bit, default is 1) change config.action_dispatch.tld_length in your config/application.rb or any config/environments/*.rb file. For example, http://www.mydomain.com.au would need to change the tld_length to 2 (.com.au).

When on the home show page, admin_root_path will render a full URL, http://admin.mydomain.com/, because it knows you'll cross subdomains. From the admin dashboard, admin_root_path will be /, but root_path will be http://www.mydomain.com/.

There will be test helpers added for capybara/selenium/cucumber super-soon.

1. Fork it
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Added some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create new Pull Request