CMS-like routing

Rails
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I’d like to set up routes like //. Using a route like
map.connect ‘:section/:article’ works just fine, but I’ve also got an
admin area that is accessed through the route ‘admin’.

Inside the admin area I’ve got subpages like admin/sections and
admin/articles. This is conflicting with the other routes and I’m not
able to write something like map.connect ‘admin/:section’, :controller
=> ‘admin/:section’.

Any suggestions on this?

2

Yep, I have my ‘cms’ like tool setup to do just that. The only way I
got around it is kind of fugly, but it works.

Heres what I have for some map entries…

#map to make sure that all the controllers that need be accessed are
able to, and not
#treated as “pages” in the cms
map.connect “:controller/:action/:id” , :requirements => {
:controller => /admin|any|other|controllers|here/ }

map.page “:path/:page”, :controller => ‘page’, :action => ‘view’

Basically I have one controller (pages_controller) that the
users/viewers of the site access and controls the display of the
pages. In your case it would be :sections/:articles but you get the
point.

Also, the order is important! The normal map needs to be above your
section/article map.

Hope this helps!
-Nick

3

On 14.2.2006, at 17.49, Frank Wittmann wrote:

Any suggestions on this?
If you put the admin route before the standard one, everything should
work just fine.

Routes are always matched in the order they appear in routes.rb.

//jarkko

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Jarkko L.

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