Question

I have a setup where nginx serves a rails application inside a specific subfolder

eg. http://myserver/railsapp/ and everything inside gets proxied to rails, if the first subfolder is different, it servers static files from another folder.

I haven’t been able to find how to specify this behaviour in rails in an intelligent way. I mean, what I want is to specify an option like Rails.server_prefix = /railsapp so that all the routes get prepended automagically, both on the incoming requests and on the generated links.

Answer 1

You probably want to use the router’s scope method with the :path argument:

Rails.application.routes do
  scope(:path => '/railsapp') do
    # the rest of your routes go here
  end
end

See the docs for more info.