I've been thinking about this myself, but I haven't done anything yet.
Actually, I played with it a little today, but nothing really
productive come of it.
My reason for doing so is to remove the need to add anything to
config/routes.rb, but also somehow allowing you to overwrite the
engine defaults if you want, or not having them at all. Seems a bit
challenging.
-jeff
On 3/10/06, Nathaniel S. H. Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I had remembered pondering this myself, and it is likely that several others
> may have as well.
>
> I haven't tested this yet, but I am under the impression throwing this
> inside of a /vendor/plugins/my_engine/lib/routes.rb, very well may work.
>
> It would be great to create an abstract layer ontop of the Rails engines to
> define new routes. Such as:
>
> Engines.map.connect "#{ADMIN_PAGE_DIR}/*name", :controller=>'view_pages',
> :action=>'show_page'
>
> Here is the snippet:
>
> ActionController::Routing::Routes.draw do |map| map.connect
> "#{ADMIN_PAGE_DIR}/*name", :controller=>'view_pages', :action=>'show_page '
> map.connect '', :controller => "admin_pages", :action=>"edit_pages"
> map.connect ':controller/service.wsdl', :action => 'wsdl'
> map.connect ':controller/:action/:id'
> end
>
> Has anyone else done something like this yet? I think the biggest advantage
> to this is doing some new hacks on the ActionController::Routing::Routes to
> add domain wildcards. So those who are doing username.example.com, can
> automatically route it to the specific controller and action.
>
> I will be embarking on this sooner or later, but would be nice to see who
> else has done what.
>
> -Nb
>
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