Re: Middleware to dispatch request to multiple applications based on request domain name

[misza222 <misza222@gmail.com>]

On 8 Feb, 10:29, James Tucker <jftuc...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 7 Feb 2010, at 22:36, misza222 wrote:
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> > On 7 Feb, 11:57, James Tucker <jftuc...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> On 6 Feb 2010, at 16:58, misza222 wrote:
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> >>> Hi,
>
> >>> Here is a problem I have.
> >>> There is an app which consists of multiple subapps. Requests needs to
> >>> be dispatched to the particular subapp based on the domain name.
> >>> I thought Rack::URLMap may be a solution but couldn't make it to work
> >>> so eventually I created my own rack middleware that allowed me to
> >>> achieve it. Here is how it looks likehttp://github.com/misza222/dispatch_by_domain
> >>> But am I reinventing a wheel here? Is there any way to achieve the
> >>> same thing with existing rack middleware?
>
> >> map "http://mydomain.com/" do
> >>   run App1.new
> >> end
>
> >> map "http://otherdomain.com/" do
> >>   run App2.new
> >> end
>
> >>> Cheers,
>
> >>> Michal
>
> > Thanks James.
>
> > Where is 'map' method defined as I can't find it in the code?
>
> Rack::Builder in lib/rack/builder.rb
>
> > And is there any way to make one of those apps a default one so it can
> > catch all unmatched paths?
>
> Yes, don't use a host for that app, and map to /
>

That was my first guess too but unfortunately it doesn't work this
way.

map 'http://admin.localdomain/' do
  run AdminApp.new
end

map '/' do
  run DefaultApp.new
end

Always runs the default one.

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> > --
> > Cheers,
>
> > Michal
>
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