It's always a bad idea to mix different types of urls without having clearly defined separate prefixes for each. Basically it's like having a global namespace, and even worse is that you don't get ambiguity errors in case of overlaps, you get one url superseding the other (this also applies to static files hijacking a request with the same url, which I guess both rails and pylons do by default, and then for each request you actually have to check if a file with that name exists and only if not then dispatch the rails/pylons action ==> that is really bad programming, performance wise and logic wise).
it's like having the home directories not be under /home !!!! so if you get a user named "etc" you r screw3d !!! On Dec 20, 1:07 pm, "Mike Orr" <sluggos...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 11:42 AM, Wichert Akkerman <wich...@wiggy.net> wrote: > > > Previously ED209 wrote: > > >> I'm planning on moving my users' profile pages to: > > >> example.com/:username > > >> but there has been some discussion amongst fellow developers that this > >> might cause problems. I would have this route and subsequent routes as > >> the last ones defined in my array of routes defenitions so any static > >> routes would be matched first. > > > What if at some point in the future you need a new static route and a > > user already registered with that username? > > Well, that is where the Rails helpers' convention of /images, > /stylesheets, and /javascripts makes some sense, because that way you > only have to reserve a few prefixes. You could also reserve 'static' > in case something else comes along that doesn't fit into these > categories. > > -- > Mike Orr <sluggos...@gmail.com> --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "pylons-discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to pylons-discuss@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to pylons-discuss+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/pylons-discuss?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
