Rails - Feb 2006 - Can I let routes.rb take precedence over file names?

I''d like Rails to intercept the url''s of html pages in a
certain
directory so I can embed them in my site. I put them in public/pages and 
tried to catch them with a route like

  map.connect ''pages/:pagename''

However this only works if the file does not exist; e.g. 
"pages/test.html" will only be routed if that file doesn''t
exist,
otherwise it will just show the file.

Is there any other way I can reroute url''s of existing html files?

The reason I need to use the real directory and file names is that these 
html pages contain images and cross-links which still need to work.

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On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 11:15:16PM +0100, Filip Godsmurf
wrote:
> I''d like Rails to intercept the url''s of html pages in a
certain
> directory so I can embed them in my site. I put them in public/pages and 
> tried to catch them with a route like
> 
>   map.connect ''pages/:pagename''
> 
> However this only works if the file does not exist; e.g. 
> "pages/test.html" will only be routed if that file
doesn''t exist,
> otherwise it will just show the file.
> 
> Is there any other way I can reroute url''s of existing html files?
> 
> The reason I need to use the real directory and file names is that these 
> html pages contain images and cross-links which still need to work.
I don''t understand why you need to have the filenames still exist in
public/pages.  If you need to access their content, you can stick them
somewhere else (out of public).

I''d be very leery of having Rails handle every single request --
you''d need
to add some sort of generic magic to serve out the static files, as once the
webserver has handed control off to Rails, I don''t think Rails can
throw
back to the webserver and say "I don''t want this one, you take
it".

- Matt