Detailed discussion and complete code for "Discover shared projects"

apps/dashboard/app/models/project.rb

@@ -28,9 +28,29 @@ def next_id
     end
 
     def all
-      lookup_table.map do |id, directory|
+      projects = lookup_table.map do |id, directory|
         Project.new({ id: id, directory: directory })
       end
+
+      # TODO: Move this out of here
+      Configuration.shared_projects_root.each do |path|
+        if path.exist?
+          CurrentUser.group_names.each do |group|
+            dir_path = path.join(group)
+            # {shared_projects_path}/<UNIX group ID>/<project>/.ondemand
+            if dir_path.exist? && dir_path.directory? 
+              Dir.each_child(dir_path) do |child|
+                if File.directory?(File.join(dir_path, child, '.ondemand'))
+                  projects << Project.new({ id: child, directory: File.join(dir_path, child) })
+                end
+              end
+            end
+
+          end
+        end
+      end
+
+      projects
     end
 
     def find(id)

apps/dashboard/config/configuration_singleton.rb

@@ -433,6 +433,22 @@ def rails_env_production?
     rails_env == 'production'
   end
 
+  def shared_projects_root
+    # This environment varible will support ':' colon separated paths
+    vendor_path = ENV['VENDOR_SHARED_FILESYSTEM'] || ''
+    path_list = vendor_path.split(":")
+
+    paths = []
+    path_list.each do |path|
+      temp_path = Pathname.new(path)
+      if temp_path.exists? 
+        paths.append(temp_path)
+      end
+    end
+
+    return paths
+  end
+
   private
 
   def can_access_core_app?(name)