Deploying a Rails app to a Sub URI

Recently I was working on a POC application. And I had to deploy that application to show a demo. Since it is a POC app I had to deploy it as a Sub URI of an existing app.

I modified the nginx conf file to set up the sub URI, based on the information from this doc. I have added passenger_base_uri option to the conf, but that was just starting the application from the sub URI. All the URLs in the application is using the base URL instead of the sub URI.

To make all the URLs from the application use the sub URI as the base URL, I had to add a scope in the routes:
SubUriApp::Application.routes.draw do
  my_draw = Proc.new do
   devise_for :users
  end

  if ENV['RAILS_RELATIVE_URL_ROOT']
   scope ENV['RAILS_RELATIVE_URL_ROOT'] do
     my_draw.call
   end
  else
   my_draw.call
  end
end
  

The scope I added to the routes was not working with the passenger_base_uri added to the nginx conf. So I have to modify the nginx conf like the following:
server {
        listen 80;
        server_name base_url.com;
	location / {
        	root /www/base_url.com/current/public;
	        rails_env production;
        	passenger_enabled on;
	}

	location /sub_uri {
        	root /www/sub_uri/current/public;
	        rails_env production;
        	passenger_enabled on;
	}
    }
  

Even after these changes the assets were loaded from the base URL. I had to set the following configuration in the environment file (production.rb) to make it work:
ENV['RAILS_RELATIVE_URL_ROOT'] = "/sub_uri"
config.assets.prefix = ENV['RAILS_RELATIVE_URL_ROOT']
  

At last the application started working like a normal application from the sub URI :)
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