Rails - Oct 2006 - Conditional routes

In routes.rb I have:

map.connect '''', :controller => ''stories''

However, if I want to do the following:

if CONDITION
  map.connect '''', :controller =>
''stories''
else
  map.connect '''', :controller => ''others''
end

Is this possible? I want certain conditions to be evaluated before 
deciding where to route it? Or is there a better way of doing this?

Thank you,

Sharkie

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Hi !

2006/10/31, Sharkie Landshark
<rails-mailing-list@andreas-s.net>:
> if CONDITION
>   map.connect '', :controller => 'stories'
> else
>   map.connect '', :controller => 'others'
> end
routes.rb will be evaluated only once in production.  So, your
condition will not be processed as you intend.

Instead, you need to have a single action that will either redirect /
render the expected layout.  Something like this:

# routes.rb
map.connect '', :controller => 'take_a_decision', :action
=> 'choose'
map.stories 'stories/:action/:id', :controller => 'stories'
map.others 'others/:action/:id', :controller => 'others'


# take_a_decision.rb
class TakeADecision < ApplicationController
  def choose
    if CONDITION
      redirect_to(stories_url)
    else
      redirect_to(others_url)
    end
  end
end

Alternatively:
class TakeADecision < ApplicationController
  def choose
    if CONDITION
      render(:action => 'stories')
    else
      render(:action => 'others')
    end
  end
end

Hope that helps !
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