Question

Is there a way in the Ruby On Rails Routing framework to make a decision about which controller or action to call based on some logic all within a single route?

For example, let’s say have a url zip/354 and I want to call the foo action if the integer is even and the bar action if the integer is odd. To use pseudo-ruby:

map.connect 'zip/:id', :requirements=>{:id=>/^\d+$/} do |id|
  :controller=>'c', :action=>'foo' if id.to_i % 2 == 0
  :controller=>'c', :action=>'bar' if id.to_i % 2 != 0
end

Answer 1

I am not too sure about the routing side of things but you could have the action call another action based on :id

def zip
  id = params[:id].to_i
  if(id%2 == 0)
    foo
  else
    bar
  end
end

But you may have though of that already.