Question

I’m trying to allow admin to create pages on the root path. So far i have:

get ':path' => "pages#show" ,:as =>:page, :path => /[^\.]+/

Basically i’m trying to ignore all paths with a dot in them (like .png). This does not seem to work as everything is rejected (i only want things in the public directory to be rejected, like fonts, icons, images..)

Thanks

Answer 1

By default dynamic segments don’t accept dots – this is because the
dot is used as a separator for formatted routes. If you need to use a
dot within a dynamic segment add a constraint which overrides this –
for example :id => /[^/]+/ allows anything except a slash.

http://guides.rubyonrails.org/routing.html#bound-parameters

So just removing the condition works. There might be another better solution to this problem though.