Newbie: Simple Routes

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Hi,

Just after some advice on routes, this is the first time I've played with them.

I had a site which used "http://www.example.com/rss.xml" at the root of the site for the RSS feed. My new Rails powered site however uses generated rss at "http://www.example.com/posts/feed"\. (That is, I have a posts controller with the method 'feed' which falls through to an xml template).

What is the best way for me to forward requests for the rss.xml file to the new posts/feed controller method?

Can I do this with routes? If so, perhaps someone could nudge me in the right direction.

Would this be better done with a redirect at the webserver?

Any advice is, as always much appreciated,

- N

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Add this to routes and tell me if it works for you.

map.rss_feed “/rss.xml”, :controller => “posts”, :action => “feed”

Just make sure you put it above your other routes.

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Thanks Brian,

I had tried this, but I got the error "Only get, head, post, put, and delete requests are allowed.". After your suggestion I decided to really make sure and restarted the server. Now it works :slight_smile:

Thanks for the prompt!

- N

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Just an FYI - I’ve seen that happen a lot recently. Doing what you did seems to resolve it.