App slices are a way to build private-label websites and deploy them to a web server.
WARNING: The app-slice gem is very immature. While its being used in production on certain applications, I do not recommend this for production use right out of the box. This code is also not well tested.
The goal of the app slice gem is to:
- Simplify the development, testing, and deployment of private label websites that are derived from a core application.
- Deploy the various private labels to their own servers (probably via Capistrano)
These are some commands that may be issued to run the application with various private labels:
script/server --app whitelabel
script/server # assumes core app
rake whitelabel test
rake test # assumes core, unless you specify otherwise
cap whitelabel:production deploy
cap core:production deploy
Today the app-slice only starts the server via rackup with the following command:
APP_SLICE=whitelable rackup config.ru
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