Dynamic URL -> Controller mapping for routes in Rails

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Published on 2010-04-07T22:14:51Z Indexed on 2010/04/08 2:23 UTC
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I would like to be able to map URLs to Controllers dynamically based on information in my database.

I'm looking to do something functionally equivalent to this (assuming a View model):

map.route '/:view_name',
    :controller => lambda { View.find_by_name(params[:view_name]).controller }

Others have suggested dynamically rebuilding the routes, but this won't work for me as there may be thousands of Views that map to the same Controller

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