The book shows to do a catch-all route at the bottom of the route file. map.connect '*path', :controller => 'foo'. The *path will put the values in an array 'path'.
On Jan 25, 11:09 am, Cs Webgrl <li...@ruby-forum.com> wrote: > Hi. > > I've got a user who wants url's to look like > this:www.domain.com/firstname-lastname. > > Right now I have a route set up like this > map.user ':user', :controller => 'user', :action => 'show' > > This causes problems when I get robots and people searching for urls > that don't map to an existing user. So I want to put in something that > will catch the 404's, log them in a database and route the searcher to > an appropriate page. > > Is this something where I should change the route code or put in a > redirect inside of my user controller if the user is not found? > > Any help on either how to do either of these 2 or other options would be > greatly appreciated. > > As a note, I am following the Adv Rails Recipes 404 code, but it's not > quite working based on my current needs. > > THANKS! > -- > Posted viahttp://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 rubyonrails-t...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.
