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

Though URLs are case-sensitive, if you want to make your routes case-insensitive, there is a dirty hack you can do.

In application_controller.rb put:

rescue_from ActionController::RoutingError do |exception|
 redirect_to request.url.downcase
end

But don't actually do that. You create a redirect loop for any non-existant routes. You really should parse request.request_uri into its components, downcase them, and use them to generate the legit route that you redirect to. As I mentioned right off, this is a dirty hack. However, I think this is better than making your route map ugly and hackish.