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Asked: 2026-06-05T03:36:30+00:00

I have a basic app in Rails 3.2 – two main controllers: users and

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I have a basic app in Rails 3.2 – two main controllers: users and articles.
The basic routing is like web.com/users/john and web.com/articles/articles-name.

With the match rule I can make the URLs above shorter:

match "u/:permalink" => "users#my_action_name"
match "a/:permalink" => "articles#my_action_name"

allow me to do
web.com/u/john and web.com/a/articles-name

But in the best way, I would like to make the URL yet shorter and more readable, like this (this way use for instance Twitter – twitter.com/username)
web.com/john and web.com/articles-name

But I can’t imagine, how to realize this way of routing. In the app are used also another controllers, like for example HomeController with actions index, about, contact.

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  1. Editorial Team

    Take a look at the “Route Globbing” section of the official Rails guides. You need to add something like 

    match '*users_or_articles' => 'agnostic#show'

    at the end of your config/routes.rb file. This will catch all request that found no matchers in your routes file so far. Then your controller has to identify what to do with the request.

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