rails-reverse-proxy
A reverse proxy for Ruby on Rails.
A reverse proxy accepts a request from a client, forwards it to a server that can fulfill it, and returns the server's response to the client
Installation
You know the drill. In your Gemfile
gem 'rails-reverse-proxy'
Then (you guessed it!)
$ bundle install
Usage
A use case for this gem is serving WordPress on a path within your Rails application, such as /blog.
To do this, your controller might look like this
class WordpressController < ApplicationController
include ReverseProxy::Controller
def index
# Assuming the WordPress server is being hosted on port 8080
reverse_proxy "http://localhost:8080" do |config|
# We got a 404!
config.on_missing do |code, response|
redirect_to root_url and return
end
# There's also other callbacks:
# - on_set_cookies
# - on_connect
# - on_response
# - on_set_cookies
# - on_success
# - on_redirect
# - on_missing
# - on_error
# - on_complete
end
end
end
Then in your routes.rb file, you should have something like
match 'blog/*path' => 'wordpress#index', via: [:get, :post, :put, :patch, :delete]
You can also pass options into reverse_proxy
reverse_proxy "http://localhost:8000", path: "custom-path", headers: { 'X-Foo' => "Bar" }
If you'd like to bypass SSL verification
reverse_proxy "http://localhost:8000", verify_ssl: false
If you'd like to customize options passed into the underlying Net:HTTP object
reverse_proxy "http://localhost:8000", http: { read_timeout: 20, open_timeout: 100 }
If you'd like to reset the Accept-Encoding header in order to disable compression or other server-side encodings
reverse_proxy "http://localhost:8000", reset_accept_encoding: true
Determine what version you're using
ReverseProxy.version
Feel free to open an issue!
Contributing
All pull requests will become first class citizens.
Contributors
Special thanks to our contributors!