Rails - Mar 2006 - Routing Issue

Hi,

I have these entries in my routes.rb file:

map.connect '':id'',
            :controller => ''wiki'',
            :action => ''show'',
            :id => /^([A-Z]\w*)+$/

map.connect '':controller/:action/:id''

map.connect '''',
            :controller => ''wiki'',
            :action => ''show'',
            :id => ''HomePage''

I only want Rails to use the first route if :id is a camel-case word. 
But for some reason, this route catches even when there is no :id 
specified in the URL.  So, the first route catches when the URL is 
something like http://www.example.com/, and I receive an error, because 
no :id parameter is specified in this case.

I would think that the regex in the first route would prevent this, 
since:

irb(main):005:0> nil =~ /^([A-Z]\w*)+$/
=> false
irb(main):006:0> '''' =~ /^([A-Z]\w*)+$/
=> nil
irb(main):007:0> ''TestPage'' =~ /^([A-Z]\w*)+$/
=> 0

I must be missing something here, but I am not really sure what.  If 
anywould could offer any information about this, I would greatly 
appreciate it.

Thanks,
Andrew

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Hi !

2006/3/23, Andrew Tongen <ajtongen@warpmail.net>:
> map.connect '':id'',
>             :controller => ''wiki'',
>             :action => ''show'',
>             :id => /^([A-Z]\w*)+$/
>
> map.connect '':controller/:action/:id''
>
> map.connect '''',
>             :controller => ''wiki'',
>             :action => ''show'',
>             :id => ''HomePage''
Move the last entry to the top of the file.  Routes are evaluated in
order, and the first one that matches is the one that will be used.

Hope that helps !
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