In Rails Routes redirect /:controller_name to root?

Question

I have a root path in my routes file: map.root :controller => 'games', :action => 'index'

The problem is that if anyone goes to: http://domain.com/games it doesn't show the root, thus we're creating two urls for the same page.

Is there a way to change any hit to http://domain.com/games to http://domain.com ?

I'd rather not fiddle around with a before_filter in the application controller if there's a nice way to do it in the routes folder.

Thanks!

Answer 1

The easiest way is to just set up a redirect.

map.redirect('/games','/')

Although, your problem is really that the /games route shouldn't be there in in the first place.

Remove the catchall route at the bottom of your routes.rb file, and this won't even be a problem.