[Radiant] How to add additional routes without touching radiant routes.rb

[Leon Yeh]

Thanks Sean! I did not think to do this using  the htaccess or handle 
this in apache.

Sean Cribbs wrote:
> Actually, it sounds like you need URL rewriting, not routing.  Routing 
> is used to map URLs to controllers and actions.  In the .htaccess or 
> Apache config file, I would do something like this:
>
> RewriteRule ^/specialoffer(.*)$ /offers/free_bike$1
>
> Sean
>
> Leon Yeh wrote:
>   
>> Hi Sean,
>>
>> The new routes is not specific to an extension, it is more specific to 
>> the instance of my radiant app.
>> For example: I need to route: /specialoffer url  to /offers/free_bike page.
>>
>> In regular rails app, you can just add this into config/routes.rb. 
>> However for radiant, it basically load it from either 
>> vendor/radiant/config/routes.rb or from gem folder, depends on 
>> RADIANT_ROOT.
>>
>> Is there any way to do this on config/routes.rb ? since it is only 
>> applied to only this radiant app and not to the extension ?  I guess I 
>> can just write an extension that can redirect to specific pages, but it 
>> would be overkill for my app.
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> Leon Yeh
>>
>>