I need to do some dynamic routing in my application. It’s a CMS type-
application, so it needs to allow for users to create their own pages.
Heres what I was doing before:
config/routes.rb
map.connect “*path”, :controller => “user_pages”, :action => “show”
The show action would then take params[:path] and find the correct
page. That was working great, until I had to enable the users to be
able to create sub-pages on already existing controller routes. For
example, I’ve got a:
map.resources :photos
in my routes config, which maps to a photos_controller.rb with all the
normal CRUD translated actions. However, the user is supposed to be
able to create custom pages in the same /photos URL. For example:
example.com/photos/family
So I need something in the routes that tells rails to take a path
like /photos and route it to the photos_controller like normal, but to
take a route like /photos/family and route it to the user_pages
controller.
I’ve been trying to use the :requirements parameter along with the
*pages in the routing but that is failing miserably. Anyone have any
suggestions for me? Thanks for listening.