Getting around dots in "pretty urls"

actioncontroller, routes, ruby-on-rails

Solution

You could try

map.connect ':name',
            :controller => 'my_classes',
            :action => 'show',
            :name => /[a-zA-Z\.]+/

or use whatever regular expression you want for the name. (The one I suggested should match any letter or dot combination - `weak.sauce`, `weak...sauce`, `.weak.sauce.`, etc.)

Problem

In my routes.rb I've got: ``` map.connect ':name', :controller => 'my_classes', :action => 'show' ``` And that works perfectly, so a url like this sends params like so: ``` http://localhost:30000/awesome Parameters: {"name"=>"awesome"} ``` But if I have something like this I get this error: ``` http://localhost:30000/weak.sauce ActionController::RoutingError (No route matches "/weak.sauce" with {:method=>:get}): ``` How can I get around this?

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