Rails 3 - Subdomain Issue Moving to Heroku - ruby-on-rails

I've written an application that uses a subdomain per user account to segregate environments. All this is working fine, except I have one issue. I can't get both www and "" to have a different root path than all other subdomains.
For all account subdomains, I have a root page of:
root :to => "applications#index"
I need this to be the root page for all subdomains except for a blank subdomain of "" and then "www". For www, I have this in the routes:
constraints(:subdomain => "www") do
root :to => "promos#index"
end
What I'm struggling with, is getting it so "" will also use promos#index as the root path. When it's not the root path, mywebsite.com sends them to the applications#index, which requires a login. Something I don't want users to see on a first visit.
Is there anyway to modify this code to also include mywebsite.com to have the different root? I've tried things like duplicating the code with "", but this tends to mess up all other subdomains, regardless of order. Below is the in of my routes file:
constraints(:subdomain => "www") do
root :to => "promos#index"
end
root :to => "applications#index"

You can use an object that implements 'matches?' to do some real custom stuff. Below we'll set applications#index if you are a customer subdomain, and send you to promo#index if you're not
In your routes:
Yourapp::Application.routes.draw do
constraints(SubDomain) do
root :to => "applications#index"
end
root :to => "promo#index"
...
end
and then the Subdomain matcher file:
config/initializers/subdomain.rb
class SubDomain
def self.matches?(request)
case request.subdomain
when 'www', '', nil, #admin/api/etc could also go here
false
else
true
end
end
end
subdomain.rb can also live in lib (if it's being auto-loaded)

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...
end
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This answer can be useful for the rails routes problem:
Rails routing to handle multiple domains on single application
Shortened:
1) define a custom constraint class in lib/domain_constraint.rb:
class DomainConstraint
def initialize(domain)
#domains = [domain].flatten
end
def matches?(request)
#domains.include? request.domain
end
end
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Edit
It appears that the link is now dead (which is why we should post more than just links!), but I was able to find it in the WayBackMachine. Here are the code examples that it had.
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# /lib/domains.rb
class Subdomain
def self.matches?(request)
request.subdomain.present? && request.subdomain != "www" && request.subdomain != ""
end
end
class RootDomain
#subdomains = ["www"]
def self.matches?(request)
#subdomains.include?(request.subdomain) || request.subdomain.blank?
end
end
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# config/routes.rb
# a bunch of other routes...
# requiring the /lib/domains.rb file we created
require 'domains'
constraints(Subdomain) do
match '/' => 'websites#show'
end
constraints(RootDomain) do
match '/contact_us', :to => 'static_pages#contact'
match '/about', :to => 'static_pages#about'
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Devise set different root path per user type

I've created a devise user model. There are 2 types of user:
customer
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I've accomplished bij creating two 'normal' models: customer and admin. These two models are inheriting from the user model, like so:
class Customer < User
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UPDATE:
I've solved the problem:
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Edit:
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authenticated :admin_user do
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end
this is documented here but note that it seems like only a temporary fix and so is subject to change again in the future
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For instance:
def index
if signed_in?
if current_user.is_a_customer?
#redirect to customer root
elsif current_user.is_a_admin?
#redirect to admin root
end
end
end
Using after_sign_in_path_for should be appropriate. So add this to your application_controller.rb:
def after_sign_in_path_for(resource)
if resource.type == 'customer'
your_desired_customer_path
else
your_desired_admin_path
end
end

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...
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match '' => 'questions#index'
root :to => 'questions#index', :as => 'network_root'
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constraints(:subdomain => /.+/) do
root :to => 'sites/public#welcome'
end
root :to => 'public#welcome'
I figured it out:
constraints(:subdomain => /.+/) do
scope :module => "sites" do
root :to => 'public#welcome'
end
end
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