Rails - May 2006 - QUESTION: Routing system scalability/best practices

Hello,

I was wondering if people have a sense of the performance scalability of 
the routing system, in the number of map.connect statements. Is 
execution time (or memory usage) of routing any more than linear in the 
number of map.connects? I figure I''d ask before trying to 
reverse-engineer all the code generation... :)

On a related note, the reason I potentially have a lot of map.connects 
is that I''d like my action names to be 
fairly_descriptive_with_lots_of_underscores, whereas I want to keep my 
URL forms much shorter. So I''m finding myself doing a lot of this sort 
of thing:

map.connect ''mycontroller/dosomething/:id'',
            :controller => ''my_controller'',
            :action =>
''very_descriptive_name_for_doing_something''

So much so that my routes.rb now consists of defining a bunch of hashes 
mapping the real action names to URL shortened action names, followed by 
map.connect statements within Hash.each blocks. I''m okay with 
maintaining such a mapping, but I''m curious whether the seasoned
routing
gurus have determined that this would be bad practice, and if so if 
there are any alternative techniques out there.

Thanks,
Daniel

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