Rails - Apr 2008 - routes.rb: regular expression /i (case insensitive) doesn't work?

Dear all,

I have something like this in routes.rb:

map.connect '':test'', :controller =>
''help'', :requirements => { :test
=> /apple/i }

But then, the routing for URL "/apple" works but "/APPLE"
does not!

Why doesn''t the i-for-case-insensitive work? Is this by-design or a
bug?

Thanks for any advice,
AK
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Akira wrote:
> map.connect '':test'', :controller =>
''help'', :requirements => { :test
> => /apple/i }
> 
> But then, the routing for URL "/apple" works but
"/APPLE" does not!
Because Rails doesn''t use the regular expression as-is.  It decides
that
you always want the expression to be anchored at the start and end.  The 
code used is:

requirement_conditions = requirements.collect do |key, req|
  if req.is_a? Regexp
    value_regexp = Regexp.new "\\A#{req.source}\\Z"

So only the source string of your regular expression is used.
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