Regular Expression Routes in Rails

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Published on 2010-06-09T04:23:29Z Indexed on 2010/06/09 4:32 UTC
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I am looking to create a rails route that is capable of accepting requests using a regular expression. Specifically, I need optional paths. As an example:

"(/first)?(/second)?"

Would match:

/first
/second
/first/second

But not:

/second/first

Is this possible? Thanks.

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