[Rails] Integrating applications?

["Luis G. Gómez"]

I asked a similar question and then posted a the answer on 
http://www.rubyonrails.org/show/TheBigPicture

Hope it helps...

Jarkko Laine wrote:
> Hi Bruno,
> 
> That's an interesting question I've been wondering too, and am a bit 
> surprised it hasn't been raised here before (that I'd know, at least).
> 
> On 9.12.2004, at 04:06, Bruno Mattarollo wrote:
> 
>> What's the approach that you would take to do something like that? 
>> Using another subdomain and using another Rails app?
> 
> 
> Or just copying the controllers and models over. Then you'd be able to 
> reuse e.g. the user controllers etc. I would like to know if there is 
> (or is planned) a way to easily package such an application.
> 
>>  That wouldn't be the best solution when you want to have a single 
>> user base, etc ... Any ideas? Has it been done already?
> 
> 
> I haven't done this but will probably soon enough. Anyway, you can 
> always connect to the same database from different apps, and even to 
> multiple databases from one app. That way for instance your user model 
> could use the same database rforum does and the rest of your application 
> could use your own db. I don't know how the referential checks etc would 
> work then, tho.
> 
> //jarkko
> 
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> Jarkko Laine
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