Filtering routes based on format

Rails
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Hi,

We’ve had some requests though for nonsense URLs which have slipped
through to our controllers and caused ActionView::MissingTemplate
exceptions. They’re from URLs like

/artists/123-radiohead.php

I feel like it should be possible to block this request at the routing
stage - before it reaches the artists controller, but I can’t see how
it could be done. We use restful routes, so the artists controller is
wired up using

map.resources :artists

Is there any way to add an option to this call to specify the formats
that are acceptable (and thus return a 40x code if the format is not
in the whitelist?)

e.g.

map.resources :artists, :format => [ :html, :json ]

I can’t see anything in the docs, or indeed the code, which would let
me do this, but I might well have missed something.

cheers,
Matt

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For routing information you could read here:
http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActionController/Routing.html

I’m guessing you could use regular expressions or something else to
reduce the actions that could be called on a given controller.

Another thing you could do is use method_missing and redirect to an
error page, I guess.

Pepe