Rails routes and various XML templates

Question

My application needs to serve the same data in XML to two different providers that have specific formatting requests.

What's the best way to set up my routes so that I can have the following:

http://www.site.com/posts/provider1.xml
http://www.site.com/posts/provider2.xml

(Where provider 1 and 2 are separate templates)

Thanks.

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user105769 May 14 '09 at 16:53

1 answer

adnan. · Accepted Answer · 2009-05-14T17:13:53+0000

In your routes.rb file try

map.xml_posts 'posts/:provider.xml', :controller => 'posts', :action => 'xml_data'

Then you can access params[:provider]

in your controller xml_data method to make a formatting decision.