Does anyone see any roadblocks to routing a rails 4 app as a subdomain of an existing website made from Joomla?
Although they are different frameworks, I'm not trying to integrate the two apps. Just placing two different websites under a single domain. My thinking is as long as both applications are on the same server and I fixed my namespace in my rails routes file, all should be ok. Is my logic correct?
Yes, there are no problem, the only 2 things you have to care about are :
About the joomla item menu.
In the Menu Manager > Edit Menu Item as a Menu Item Type chose System Links > External Url .
In the Link field you can put your rails url.
With this configuration you can route your user to your rails app.
About the ruby web server configuration
Probably you already have your rails app running, so you are not worried about the web server.
But because you already have an Apache server for Joomla I guess It could be interesting for you know that like for php in Apache there is mod_php, for ruby there is Phusion Passenger.
And that's the discussion on Stackoverflow: Ruby on Rails Server options
