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Asked: 2026-05-17T18:10:51+00:00

I have a working Rails 3 app service plain old HTML CRUD and I

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I have a working Rails 3 app service plain old HTML CRUD and I want to build a sproutcore client for the same. I (think) I understand Rails and Sproutcore, but I have an embarrassingly silly newbie question:

Where do I put the sproutcore app within the rails project structure?

Specifically, given that I have:

myapp/
    app/
    ...
    public/
    ...

And I need to say:

sc-init SOMETHING

What would the SOMETHING be? (myapp? public?)
Where does the sproutcore app html come from?
What are the best practices for serving that (routes?)
What really does sc-server do that I can’t do with WebBrick/Mongrel, etc.?

Thanks so much!

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  1. Editorial Team

    I haven’t deployed a built SproutCore app yet, so I can’t answer where the files should live in the Rails site structure (but I’m guessing within public/ because you’re essentially serving HTML and a lot of Javascript as static assets).

    sc-server lets you run your application in your localhost while you’re developing it, so you don’t have to do sc-build every time you tweak something with your application. Remember that it’s the output of sc-build which will be the production site; you won’t be serving the site with sc-server (nor would you want to).

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