Question

I want to create another project inside exisiting rails app. My reasoning is that:

• They have some common models which I would be able to link to from the inner app,
• They operate on the same database
• They will have one version control system (no additional configuration and moving required)

Apart from why I want to do that I just want to know why rails prevents you from doing that? As of my testing, no conflicts were exposed.

Answer 1

You should be using Rails Engines for this. Here’s a Railscasts episode about it. http://railscasts.com/episodes/149-rails-engines