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Steps for creating Rails engine to separate existing app into smaller ones
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engines.md
  1. Isolated engine - short description
  2. Create an engine: rails plugin new <name> --full --mounted - undocumented
  3. mv <name> vendor/apps
  4. cleanup engine's Gemfile (?)
  5. add engine to main app's Gemfile
  6. routes in engine's config/routes.rb then mount in main app's config/routes.rb
  7. views - lookup paths; default paths, might need to reverse order
  8. tests - dummy app; use the main app instead
  9. namespaced controllers and views
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