Comments on: Rack::Rewrite + Google Analytics Makes Site Transitions Seamless

By: John Trupiano

John Trupiano — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 16:43:05 +0000

Very cool Albert, thank for sharing.

Regarding the feature suggestion, it would be cool if you added an Issue with a proposal for the feature at github: http://github.com/jtrupiano/rack-rewrite/issues

By: Albert

Albert — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 18:47:29 +0000

Hello, Rack::Rewrite is much appreciated, and I thought you might find my use of it interesting. I’m using Sinatra as a web dev framework for Regdel. For some URLs it simply serves static files that get transformed by Rack XSLView. To maintain logical url structures, I’m using Rack::Rewrite to map them to the static file path before Sinatra gets the request.

Now instead of something like “/s/xhtml/account_form.html”, I can use “/account_new”! Works like a charm. Only suggestion I have at the moment is to support the different HTTP methods, or at least GET and POST.

By: John Trupiano

John Trupiano — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 14:31:36 +0000

This excellent post by Hugo Frappier explains how to use Anemone to crawl your site to find URL’s that might require rewrite rules: http://hugofrappier.wordpress.com/2009/11/18/permanent-301-redirections-using-a-rack-middleware-in-rails/

This can be particularly useful if you store full path self-referencing links in your database. For our site in particular, it was really only important to find the landing pages.