Thanks a lot. I really needed some assurance that this is the right direction.
On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 1:48 PM, David Kahn <d...@structuralartistry.com>wrote: > > > On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 12:33 PM, Martin Wawrusch <mar...@wawrusch.com>wrote: > >> Hi guys, >> I am rather new to the rails world and need your help in pointing me to a >> good sample project and/or some hints how best to implement it. >> >> I have implemented an API section for a website of mine that deals with >> API Key management and want to publish parts of it as a gem so that it can >> be easily used it in other projects. This consists of controllers, views, >> some mongoid models, some coffeescript code, some scss. In a way it is a >> mini application with replaceable parts. >> >> What is the recommended way in Rails 3 to implement this in a gem so that >> it is reusable and future proof (Rails 3.1 comes to mind). Should I look >> into rails engines? Do you know of any samples that implement best >> practices? >> > > I just worked on a project which makes use of an engine. Although I did not > create it I went through a decent amount of work to get it to play nice with > the main app. It sounds to me that an engine would be the right thing as it > handles including controllers, views, models, etc. If you google for rails > engine I see that there are a number of results including a railscast which > would be where I would start. > >> >> Thanks >> >> Martin >> >> >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. >> To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. > To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.