NoCMS Microsites

What's this?

Gem to add NoCMS support for many domains sharing the same routes or with sub-sets of them. As it's a middleware and it doesn't need any NoCMS feature, you can use it in any Rails application.

How do I install it?

Just include in your Gemfile:

gem "nocms-microsites", git: 'git@github.com:simplelogica/nocms-microsites.git', branch: 'master'

Once the gem is installed you can import all the migrations:

rake no_cms_microsites:install:migrations

Set your default domain with key host, for example for your myapplication.com, set in your config/production.yml:

host: http://myapplication.com

Configure your accepted "microsites" or alternative domains for your app. You can see several examples in next section.

How does it works?

Each request is treated by Micrositer middleware. If request comes from an existing Iberostar::Cms::Microsite domain, it generates the response as if it had been called the default host with current locale root_path chosen for that microsite.

After create the response, it changes all links to fit new microsite root path, so it changes all root path occurrences in code with '/'.

Examples

Domain for german specific application

If we want to offer a german version of our application and return myapplication.com/de responses, we have to create a new microsite:

microsite = Iberostar::Cms::Microsite.new
microsite.title = "German domain"
microsite.domain = "deutchapplication.com"
I18n.available_locale.each do |locale|
  I18n.with_locale(locale) do
    microsite.root_path = '/de/'
  end
end

microsite.save

When we receive a request for deutchapplication.com our application will return the response from http://myapplication.com/de/ but changing all /de/ ocurrences with '/'.

Domain for '/specific-content/'

If we want to offer specific content from a path inside of our application :

microsite = Iberostar::Cms::Microsite.new
microsite.title = "Specific content domain"
microsite.domain = "myappspecificcontent.com"
I18n.with_locale(:en) do
  microsite.root_path('/specific-content/')
end

I18n.with_locale(:es) do
  microsite.root_path('/contenido-especifico/')
end

microsite.save

When we receive a request for myappspecificcontent.com in english our application will return the response from http://myapplication.com/specific-content/ but changing all /specific-content/ ocurrences with '/'. If we call myappspecificcontent.com/es/ it will return http://myapplication.com/es/contenido-especifico/