Dynamic Rails routing based on database

Question

I\'m building a CMS with various modules (blog, calendar, etc.) using Rails 2.3. Each module is handled by a different controller and that works just fine.

The only prob

Answer 1

In Rails 3.2 this was what I came up with (still a middleware):

class RootRewriter
  def initialize(app)
    @app = app
  end

  def call(env)
    if ['', '/'].include? env['PATH_INFO']
      default_thing = # Do your model lookup here to determine your default item
      env['PATH_INFO'] = # Assemble your new 'internal' path here (a string)
      # I found useful methods to be: ActiveModel::Naming.route_key() and to_param
    end

    @app.call(env)
  end
end

This tells Rails that the path is different from what was requested (the root path) so references to link_to_unless_current and the like still work well.

Load the middleware in like so in an initialiser:

MyApp::Application.config.middleware.use RootRewriter