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From: Yehuda Katz <wycats@gmail.com>
To: "rack-devel@googlegroups.com" <rack-devel@googlegroups.com>
Subject: Re: Links and Modular Apps
Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2010 19:29:57 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2170183861188701182@unknownmsgid> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9e9892d7-ff49-4ac5-8246-5b8b8ea89016@a4g2000prm.googlegroups.com>

this is something that Rails 3.1's engines do automatically (and rails
itself will do if you mount the main Rails app in a URLMap).

In my opinion, this makes more sense as a Sinatra helper than an
output modifying middleware (which is extremely expensive and
potentially error-prone)

Sent from my iPhone

On Oct 22, 2010, at 5:13 PM, andyl <akleak@gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks - your approach worked !!
>
> I think I'm going to create a link-rewriting middleware, so I can use
> unmodified Sinatra apps - but this is a nice intermediate step.
>
> - Andy
>
> On Oct 21, 11:19 pm, Sylvain Desvé <sylvain.de...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> The Rack URLMap changes the env so that '/app1' is moved from PATH_INFO to
>> SCRIPT_NAME.
>>
>> You need a helper in your Sinatra application to reconstruct paths :
>>
>> helpers do
>>   def path_to(path)
>>     request.script_name + path
>>   en
>> end
>>
>> and then use it in your templates :
>>
>> <a href='#{path_to('/page')}'>
>>
>> 2010/10/22 andyl <akl...@gmail.com>
>>
>>> I would like to use Rack to mount modular apps.
>>
>>> Using the 'map' statement in config.ru, I can mount an app just fine.
>>
>>> But - the links in my sub-apps don't work.
>>
>>> If I mount App1 on '/app1', and App1 has a link <a href='/page'>,
>>> it needs to render '/app1/page' instead of '/page'.
>>
>>> How do people get around this problem??
>>
>>> Thanks, Andy
>>
>>

      reply	other threads:[~2010-10-23  2:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-10-22  4:53 Links and Modular Apps andyl
2010-10-22  6:19 ` Sylvain Desvé
2010-10-23  0:13   ` andyl
2010-10-23  2:29     ` Yehuda Katz [this message]

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