I have a requirement to support a query syntax on my resources like so: http://localhost:3000/people(last_name=jones).xml I can hook that up so that the people controller receives that action via map.connect like so: map.connect '':people_query_regexp'', :controller => ''people'', :index => ''index'', :requirements => { :people_query_regexp => /people.*/ } But people is a RESTful resource, so I want to do the same thing using map.resources instead of map.connect. If I change the routing to: map.resources '':parties_query_regexp'', :controller => ''parties'', :requirements => { :parties_query_regexp => / parties.*/ } ...then the server fails on startup like so: lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-2.2.2/lib/action_controller/routing/ route_set.rb:141:in `define_hash_access'': (eval):3:in `define_hash_access'': compile error (SyntaxError) (eval):1: syntax error, unexpected '':'', expecting ''\n'' or '';'' def hash_for_:people_query_regexp_index_pat... It chokes on a syntax error because there''s a colon in the middle of the method name it''s trying to define. So is there a way around this? What am I doing wrong? This is Rails 2.2.2, btw. Thanks. --mark