How to disable .format routes?

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Is there any way with RESTful routing to disable the .format routes? (“Why would you want to do that?”, I hear the purists cry…)

I would like to do it in order to simplify the routing table for a newbie first learning RoR.

–wpd

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Hi Patrick,

Patrick Doyle wrote:

Is there any way with RESTful routing to disable the .format routes? ("Why would you want to do that?", I hear the purists cry...)

I would like to do it in order to simplify the routing table for a newbie first learning RoR.

Starting with someone just learning RoR, I'd rip _all_ the routing out . Then, stopping to show what new things we can do as a result of each, put back the empty route to root, then the default routes, then start talking about REST, then start looking at 2.x routing as the way Rails defines/approaches REST. Rails 2.x works just fine with the routing, in case you didn't know. The :controller => x, :action => y model of operation still works.

HTH, Bill