README.rdoc in subdomain-fu-0.5.4 vs README.rdoc in subdomain-fu-1.0.0.beta2
- old
+ new
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SubdomainFu provides a modern implementation of subdomain handling in Rails.
It takes aspects from account_location, request_routing, and other snippets
found around the web and combines them to provide a single, simple solution
for subdomain-based route and url management.
+**Note**: SubdomainFu has been rewritten to be compatible with Rails 3. If
+you are looking to use it on Rails 2.x, please install version v0.5.x instead.
+
== Installation
SubdomainFu is available both as a traditional plugin and a GemPlugin. To
-install it as a traditional plugin (Rails 2.1 or later):
+install it as a traditional plugin:
- script/plugin install git://github.com/mbleigh/subdomain-fu.git
+ script/plugin install git://github.com/intridea/subdomain-fu.git
-To use it as a gem, add it to your config/environment.rb:
+To use it as a gem, add it to your Gemfile:
- config.gem 'subdomain-fu'
+ gem 'subdomain-fu'
-
== Examples
SubdomainFu works inside of Rails's URL Writing mechanisms to provide an easy and seamless
way to link and otherwise understand cross-subdomain routing. You can use the :subdomain
option both in named and non-named routes as well as in generated resources routes.
@@ -49,62 +51,63 @@
You have access to current_subdomain and current_domain methods.
[current_subdomain] returns all subdomains. For the URL http://awesome.website.stuff.example.com, it will return "awesome.website.stuff"
-[current_domain] returns all subdomains except for the subdomain, including the TLD. For the URL http://awesome.website.stuff.example.com, it will return "website.stuff.example.com"
+[current_domain] returns the domain excluding for the subdomain, including the TLD. For the URL http://awesome.website.stuff.example.com, it will return "website.stuff.example.com"
If what you really want is the entire domain, then use <tt>request.domain</tt> in
your controllers. The purpose of current_domain is to only strip off the first
subdomain, if any, and return what's left.
== Configuration
-You may need to configure SubdomainFu based on your development setup. The
-configuration required is:
+You may need to configure SubdomainFu based on your development setup. To configure
+SubdomainFu simply call a block in an initializer like so:
-=== TLD Size
+ SubdomainFu.configure do |config|
+ config.option_name = value
+ end
+Some available options are enumerated below.
+
+=== tld_size
+
A hash for each environment of the size of the top-level domain name.
(something.com = 1, localhost = 0, etc.)
- SubdomainFu.tld_size = 1 # sets for current environment
- SubdomainFu.tld_sizes = {:development => 0,
+ config.tld_size = 1 # sets for current environment
+ config.tld_sizes = {:development => 0,
:test => 0,
:production => 1} # set all at once (also the defaults)
-=== Mirrors
+=== mirrors
Mirrors are the subdomains that are equivalent to no subdomain (i.e. they 'mirror')
the usage of the root domain.
- SubdomainFu.mirrors = %w(www site we) # Defaults to %w(www)
+ config.mirrors = %w(www site we) # Defaults to %w(www)
-=== Preferred Mirror
+=== preferred_mirror
SubdomainFu also understands the notion of a 'preferred mirror', that is, if you
always want your links going to 'www.yourdomain.com' instead of 'yourdomain.com',
you can set the preferred mirror like so:
- SubdomainFu.preferred_mirror = "www"
+ config.preferred_mirror = "www"
Now when you create a link with <tt>:subdomain => false</tt> in the options the subdomain
will default to the preferred mirror.
-== Routing
+== Routing (Deprecated)
-SubdomainFu can also work within Rails' routing for subdomain-specific routes. For instance, if you only wanted your administrative tools available in the "admin" subdomain you could add this to your <tt>config/routes.rb</tt> file:
+Subdomain constraint routing has been removed from the scope of this plugin as Rails 3
+provides the functionality by default. For more info, see this blog post:
+http://yehudakatz.com/2009/12/26/the-rails-3-router-rack-it-up/
- map.with_options :conditions => {:subdomain => 'admin'} do |admin|
- admin.resources :posts
- admin.resources :users
- end
-
-In addition to specifying a string, you could also specify <tt>false</tt> to require no subdomain (this includes mirrors that you've set up such as www) or a regular expression to match a range of subdomains.
-
== Resources
-* GitHub Repository: http://github.com/mbleigh/subdomain-fu
-* RDocs: http://rdoc.info/projects/mbleigh/subdomain-fu
+* GitHub Repository: http://github.com/intridea/subdomain-fu
+* RDocs: http://rdoc.info/projects/intridea/subdomain-fu
-Copyright (c) 2008 Michael Bleigh (http://www.mbleigh.com/) and
+Copyright (c) 2008-2010 Michael Bleigh (http://www.mbleigh.com/) and
Intridea, Inc. (http://www.intridea.com/). Released under the MIT license