Rails - Mar 2007 - Catching requests for non-existing controllers and actions

Hey :)

I''m trying to achieve CMS-like functionality with pages, content_slots
and content_providers.

Basically, there are a number of "static" pages in the application,
"static" meaning there are controllers with actions that service
requests like /store/items/show/43534.

What I want to do, is offer the possibility to add pages, and urls,
that "aren''t there" in this sense - like if I wanted to add a
/store/
news page even if there''s no NewsController, and then have a
PageController (or something similar) that receives all requests that
don''t have a matching "static" controller & action. I
would like this
to be invisible to the user, meaning that redirecting from /store/news
to /dynamic_pages/3 wouldn''t be so nice.

I first though about implementing a method missing in application.rb,
but of course there''s the whole routing issue - with no route, no
controller is instantiated, and thus application.rb isn''t loaded
either. Silly attempt :)

How would you guys go about doing this? I would be very interested in
any useful feedback :)

Cheers,
Daniel


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Well, okay, seems I could''ve figured it out for myself in the time it
took for me to write the question, LOL :D

Anyways, what I did was add this to the end of routes.rb:

  # Catch all that wasn''t routed, and send it to the dynamic page
renderer:
  map.connect ''*failed_url'',
              :controller => ''store/page'',
              :action     => ''index''

And the, in my store/page_controller.rb:

class Store::PageController < ApplicationController

  def index
    @failed_url = request.parameters[''failed_url'']
  end

end

Then, for something like http://localhost/chillum/huo/and/more/and/what/not,
I get,
  @failed_url == ''chillum/huo/and/more/and/what/not''

- exactly what I want! :) I love it!

Cheers you guys,
Daniel :)


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