Question

I have a situation where I’m in need to constructing pretty url paths.

I have a FilesController that need to handle URLs like:

mydomain.com/files/path/dir1/dir2/user/bob
mydomain.com/files/path/dir1/user/bob
mydomain.com/files/path/dir1
mydomain.com/files/user/bob

In the controller, I want params[:path] to contain everything between /path and /user and params[:user] to contain anything after /user (assuming only one user and it’s optional).

I’m looking for the best way to do this, preferable with just one statement in the routes.rb file. The trickiest part, I think, is that after /path an actual path to a file might be provided, N times deep.

Answer 1

You want route globbing:

match 'files/*path/user/:user' => 'user#files'

You might also need to add an additional route for the case where there is no path:

match 'files/user/:user' => 'user#files'