Rails - Feb 2008 - Routing An Old URL For A File To A Controller / Action

Hi,

Currently users to my website download files from the following
structure of URL:

http://thewebsitefortest.com/downloads/folder/filename.dmg

I would like to make it so that when the user navigates to the above URL
they are redirected to a controller / action. There are however about 50
files for download so I don''t want a route for each one.

I have tried creating a controller called downloads but the file is
still accessed. I have also tried the following in routes.rb;

map.connect ''downloads/:folder/:filename'', :controller =>
''controller_name'', :action => ''index''

However this didn''t work, the main reason for doing this is that I now
want to keep track of downloads from my website using google analytics
so I need a page to load in between, but, I don''t want to break all the
other sites that link directly to my downloads.

I have also moved the downloads into another folder, so Rails must
evaluate the route but I just get no route matches errors from the
above.

Thanks in advance,
Alex
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