Ruby Summer of Code - Rails 3 Mountable Apps

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Claims that Rails 3 engines become full mountable apps: engines gain their own middleware stack, automatic namespacing as an isolated engine, generators that create namespaced models and migrations, and helpers to install migrations and serve assets or copy them into the host. Implementation targets edge Rails (3.1 features) and runs engines mounted into one process, not standalone; the code is on GitHub and generally works but needs battle testing and API polish.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 2:04Let's use simple example
3. 3:12Is blog core of your business?
4. 7:13Isolating engine
5. 8:03avoiding conflict
6. 8:44Effects of isolation
7. 12:50Copy assets and migrations
8. 15:37Questions?

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