Route between rails and node.js

Question

Route between rails and node.js

In rails, I upload and process image with paperclip + resque, It's consume too much memory and very slow. I want to try node.js to handle these stuff in background.

Is possible route rails and node.js both with the same port?

Some route deal with rails, some route to node.js. for instance,

rails

/users/:user_id/albums(.:format)          
/users/:user_id/albums/new(.:format)      
/users/:user_id/albums/:id/edit(.:format)

node.js

/uploads

Thanks.

Solutions

POST /uploads to node.js(port 8080) to handle, the others rails. Below is my nginx conf

  location = /uploads {
    proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:8080/uploads;
  }

  location ^~ /assets/ {
    gzip_static on;
    expires max;
    add_header Cache-Control public;
  }

  try_files $uri/index.html $uri @unicorn;
  location @unicorn {
    proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
    proxy_set_header Host $http_host;
    proxy_redirect off;
    proxy_pass http://unicorn;
  }

Thanks @Matthew Ratzloff

ruby-on-rails
node.js
routes

Answer 1

No; 10.times { No }

But. Let's say you wanted to do this. You would:

Upload the file directly to S3
Fire a request to Node for it to download and process the file
On completion, send an HTTP request to Rails to update its database with the file attributes.

Answer 2

Sure it is. You could use a reverse proxy and forward select paths to your Node.js server and others to your Rails app.

httpd
nginx

Now, is this a good idea? Well...

A better solution is to continue creating jobs in Resque from Rails but use something like Coffee-Resque to actually process the jobs. That's the route I would go.

Hope that helps!