Use Rails Engines on Stratos

[fernandes]

Hello @softlayer/owners , // cc @cphrmky @SLsthompson

Here at Zertico we have been using Rails Engines to add features to our projects, a example can be found at: github.com/railsblocks/railsblocks-web

On my first proposal of this web system I suggested the use of rails engines as components, in a internal project here at Zertico we made a engine to create SoftLayer Servers, with a cool front end (Ember Based) consuming the Rails API, and we are going to open this component's source code so we can use at Stratos.

After all this contextualization the question is, whats the best way?

1. Stratos Wrapper

Stratos be just a Wrapper app that include other Gems, so we can add features on different components:

• railsblocks-auth for authentication
• stratos-server for server creation (example name)

ps: Here we need to create different repos for features, like softlayer-ember-*
ps2: This is my preferred way so we can improve the development of the components and reuse across different projects. Interested users can just add the gem stratos-server and use the features on a Rails Application, cool no?

2. Copy / Paste all the code.

We can just copy and paste all the code at Stratos (other users need to do the same to reuse the example)

So, gimme your thoughts so we can publish the first Stratos feature :)

[fernandes]

I'm gonna work in a simple as possible rails application to deliver a virtual machine management.

The idea is to login and persist information on session, connect into SoftLayer API and show virtual machines so users can send some actions. I keep you posted.