Running multiple sites from the same rails codebase?

Question

I have a client that wants to take their Rails app that has been successful in one niche and apply it to another similar niche. This new instance of the app is going to start ou

Answer 1

We're doing something similar at my company. Except its currently involving multiple environments (production, test, development). We're using SVN as our SCM to keep our code straight and lets us duplicate the current stable environment and create separate versions of an application (and potentially changing things like the logos or certain functionality). I highly highly recommend running the environment with Apache/Nginx and Phusion's Passenger. This is letting us run all of these applications separately, on the same/similar codebase(s). And that's it. We have to DBs, one Production and one Development to keep our live data separate, but you can easily connect two app instances to the same db this way. Its worked out really well for us so far in being able to develop, test and deploy multiple web applcations without taking down the primary production server.