Quick routes question

Rails
1

I have

This is a catch-all for routes that don’t exist, visitor is

redirected to home page.
ActionController::Routing::Routes.draw do |map|
map.connect ‘:controller/:action/:id’
map.connect ‘*path’, :controller => ‘home’
end

in my routes.rb file.
This works fine to redirect to the home page if somebody types a wrong
or missing address into the web browser.
But it doesn’t change the url/uri displayed in the browser.

How can I change the url/uri to display what it should be? (in this
case, domain followed by /home)

2

Nevermind, I’ve found a simple solution that works:
I’ve simply made the catch-all route controller/action go to a
controller where I def’d an action method that creates a flash message
and redirects to the home page.

In routes.rb:

This is a catch-all for routes that don’t exist, visitor is

redirected to home page.
ActionController::Routing::Routes.draw do |map|
map.connect ‘:controller/:action/:id’
map.connect ‘*path’, :controller => ‘home’, :action =>
‘catcher’#:controller => ‘home’, :action => ‘index’
end

In the corresponding controller:

def catcher
flash[:notice] = ‘Seems that the page you were looking for does
not exist, so you’ve been redirected here.’
redirect_to :action => ‘index’
end

It’s not the most sophisticated thing but it works.
Does anybody know the param to include in my flash message to display
the originally requested address?

3

On Aug 23, 2007, at 6:39 PM, [email protected] wrote:

map.connect '*path', :controller => 'home'

You could route this to a “redirect_home” action that calls
redirect_to /home

4

Ah, Thanks Mr. Ivey, but it looks like my watery brain kicked in just
minutes before your post! I already came to that conclusion.
That said, I can see where adding loggin for this catcher method could
generate useful SEO data for site features or simply routes that
should be added! Of course it is also a good way to catch malicious
visitors that should be banned in the htaccess file.