I don't know how intensive your link-redirector is, but if you're on a recent version of rails that uses rack, I'd look into using rails metal to pattern match on the request and do your thing.
By pass rails entirely and gain some speed as well. Here's one guide: http://railscasts.com/episodes/150-rails-metal Otherwise you need to install a catchall route, but that can get messy if you use default routes as well. On May 13, 2009, at 6:09 PM, Dan Sadaka wrote: > > I have a site that includes a Flash navigator banner. > Rather than have the designer go in and change the links ($$), I would > like to redirect his links to mine. > > His links are in the form "pagename.html". > > I need each of these links to instead be directed to actions within my > home controller. > > I have done the following: > > map.connect "pagename.html", > :controller => 'home', > :action => 'pagename' > > which works fine as long as I was not displaying a page from a > controller at the time. i.e. I was displaying a page from "public". > However, as we know, if I was displaying a page from the "step1" > controller, this mapping would not work since the url is now > "/step1/pagename.html" > > Of course, I could make entries for every controller to handle this > but > what I really want to do is something like > > map.connect "^.*pagename.html" > > so Rails ignores everything up to the pagename.html part. > > I tried using > > map.connect "*pagename.html" > > but this doesn't work. > > Any ideas? > > THANK YOU IN ADVANCE, > Dan > -- > Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
