Question

I’m curious if it’s possible to send a Rails 3 application to one website if someone lands on the site as a guest and another website if someone lands on the site as a user.

Is this done in routes? Is this done in the controller-tier?

Answer 1

You should consider using sessions. They work like this:

session[:any_key] = any value (though it should be small, think database id, instead of entire model)

Most people use session[:user_id]

Resources:

http://guides.rubyonrails.org/security.html

http://railscasts.com/episodes/21-super-simple-authentication

http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActionController/Base.html