Rails Routes - How to make them case insensitive?

Question

Routes in Ruby on Rails are case sensitive. It seems someone brought this up before, and it has been labeled will not fix.

http://rails.lighthouseapp.com/projects/89

Answer 1

A simple solution is, may be not an elegant way, but yet workable is: Use a before_filter in your application controller like this.

  before_filter :validate_case

  def validate_case
    if request.url != request.url.downcase
      redirect_301_permanent_to request.url.downcase
    end
  end

  def redirect_301_permanent_to(url)
     redirect_to url, :status=>:moved_permanently 
  end

As i already told that its not an elegant but yet workable, so no down votes please. :P