How to Create a Rails 3 Route That Will Match All Requests and Direct to One Resource/Page

How can I create a Rails 3 route that will match all requests and direct to one resource / page?

Rails needs to bind the url parameters to a variable, try this:

match '*foo' => 'content#holding'

If you also want to match /, use parenthesis to specify that foo is optional:

match '(*foo)' => 'content#holding'

Rails how to make a route that catches all paths EXCEPT one

In the routes, the order matters.
Try to put your wildcard constraint on the bottom of routes file.

Rails3 routing: how to direct two requests to a single entry point

Assume you are using resources routes just like this one:

# routes.rb
resources :tags

This will create new and create for you.

Suppose you only want new maps to edit, but remaining create unchanged, use the following:

get "/tags/new" => "tags#edit", :as => :new_tag_path
resources :tags

The order is important. The upper one will be matched first. And so if the path is /tags/new, it will be routed to edit action. And because it is matched already, it won't go down and so although resources :tags defines also the /tags/new to new action, no routing will be successfully matched.

So adding the only one line is ok.

Rails 3 helper for match route

you can try

match 'accounts/:account_type/:account_id/edit_account', to: 'accounts#edit_account', as: 'edit_account_accounts'

for more help see The Lowdown on Routes in Rails 3

Route all the URLs starting with a specific word to one specific controller

you can add the following to your route

match '/GitRepos/*path' => 'markdowns#view'

How do I limit rails route wildcard to 1 directory?

Solved it with a regex:

'match "/*path" => 'home#index', :path => %r([a-zA-z0-9]*)' 

Overriding a resource route to / (root) in Rails3: not changing the path helper?

Thank you for your answers, it helped me find the exact solution to my question:

resources :subscribers, :only => [:new, :create], :path => '', :path_names => {:new => ''}

Tested and working on Rails 3 :)

Rails, how to get the route name from the actual request (routing reverse lookup)

IMHO you could use the code explained by KinOfCain on How can I find out the current route in Rails?

Rails.application.routes.router.recognize(request){ |route, matches, parameters| puts route.name }

The router is not storing the route recognized in any place at least I wasn't able to find it

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