# Routing question **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [July 9, 2008, 2:24pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/routing-question/142589 "2008-07-09T14:24:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![jasonb](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/a587f6/32.png) [@jasonb](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jasonb)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2008, 2:24pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/routing-question/142589/1 "2008-07-09T14:24:07Z")
Hi If a URL ends in /xxx … /ModelA/1/xxx /ModelA/1/ModelZ/2/xxx Is there a way to drop the XXX and the continue to resolve the URL normally? thanks! ---
**Author:** ![jasonb](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/a587f6/32.png) [@jasonb](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jasonb)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2008, 3:43pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/routing-question/142589/2 "2008-07-09T15:43:15Z")
Maybe I could ask this: Is there an opportunity to modify “request.path” before Routing is started? Maybe I could manually modify the path and put the “/xxx” part into a param? ---
**Author:** ![jasonb](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/a587f6/32.png) [@jasonb](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jasonb)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2008, 4:49am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/routing-question/142589/3 "2008-07-10T04:49:48Z")
Have been trying to google this, but really tricky to find info. Maybe its not a great idea But would _really_ like to modify request.path before routing begins 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![jasonb](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/a587f6/32.png) [@jasonb](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jasonb)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2008, 9:14am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/routing-question/142589/4 "2008-07-10T09:14:07Z")
Route globbing seems to be the answer, will give it a try