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Using Subdomains as Account Keys

Posted on 07 Jun 2006 in rails

I looked all over for an explanation on how to use the domain or subdomain as the account key (a la campfirenow.com) and now I have it…

All it takes is putting the following in the application controller.

class ApplicationController &lt; ActionController::Base
  attr_writer :account   
  attr_reader :account     
  before_filter {|c| 
    c.account = Account.find_by_subdomain(
      c.request.subdomains.first
    )  
  }
end

Then you can use it in any controller as follows:

class BlogController &lt; ApplicationController   
  def index     
    render_text account.subdomain   
  end 
end

Check it out here…

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