Rails Routing

Chapter 4. Writing Custom Routes

4.1	Using Static Strings	32
4.2	Using Your Own “Receptors”	33
4.3	A Note on Route Order	35
4.4	Using Regular Expressions in Routes	36
4.5	Default Parameters and the url_for Method	37
4.6	Using Literal URLs	40
4.7	Route Globbing	41
4.8	Globbing Auction Item Descriptions	42

The default route is a very general one. Its purpose is to catch all routes that haven’t matched already. Now we’re going to look at that already part: the routes defined earlier in the routes.rb file, routes that match more narrowly than the general one at the bottom of the file.

You’ve already seen the major components that you can put into a route: static strings, bound parameters (usually including :controller and often including :action), and wildcard ...