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Asked: 2026-05-27T22:14:25+00:00

I have 2 subdomains that point to one rails application. My rails application’s controllers

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I have 2 subdomains that point to one rails application. My rails application’s controllers should serve both subdomains.

Lets call the subdomains http://www.mydomain.com and demo.mydomain.com. I want 2 to accomplish 3 things:

  1. Make sure only some of my controllers serve http://www.mydomain.com and some serve both domains.
  2. Make sure only a subset of my controllers’ actions serve http://www.mydomain.com and some serve both domains.
  3. Make sure users use only format :html for demo.mydomain.com (e.g. http://demo.mydomain.com/index.html) and use only formats :json/:xml for http://www.mydomain.com (e.g. http://www.mydomain.com/index.json).

What’s the best way to accomplish both requests ?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Perhaps take a look at request routing based on subdomain

    How do I route by domain / subdomain in rails

    http://agilewebdevelopment.com/plugins/request_routing

    where the request_routing plugin would allow you to define routing requirements that test methods/properties of the request object such as subdomain, domain, port. You can test them either against a value or with a Regexp (assuming the method returns a string).

    If you’re using rails 3 you could also check out subdomaining your rails site

    http://railscasts.com/episodes/221-subdomains-in-rails-3

    In order to get your controllers to respond differently based on subdomain, you can use a conditional based on

    @host = request.host
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