Rails 3.2 friendly url routing by date

Question

I want to implement blog\\news application with ability to:

1. show all posts at root: example.com/
2. show all posts answering some year:

Answer 1

Is this your full routes.rb file? Sounds like you might have a preceding resources :posts entry, which basically matches /posts/:id. Also, there's nothing I can see from the routes file you posted that could be causing a redirect from the root path to posts, so it must be something else in there.