Update the wildcard route to be non-greedy by default, therefore be able to match the (.:format) segment [#6605 state:resolved]

After some discussion with Andrew White, it seems like this is a better approach for handling a wildcard route. However, user can still bring back the old behavior by supplying `:format => false` to the route.

Signed-off-by: Andrew White <andyw@pixeltrix.co.uk>

1 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/railties/guides/source/routing.textile b/railties/guides/source/routing.textile
index c447fd911a..58b75b9a1d 100644
--- a/railties/guides/source/routing.textile
+++ b/railties/guides/source/routing.textile
@@ -557,6 +557,18 @@ match '*a/foo/*b' => 'test#index'
 
 would match +zoo/woo/foo/bar/baz+ with +params[:a]+ equals +"zoo/woo"+, and +params[:b]+ equals +"bar/baz"+.
 
+NOTE: Starting from Rails 3.1, wildcard route will always matching the optional format segment by default. For example if you have this route:
+
+<ruby>
+map '*pages' => 'pages#show'
+</ruby>
+
+NOTE: By requesting +"/foo/bar.json"+, your +params[:pages]+ will be equals to +"foo/bar"+ with the request format of JSON. If you want the old 3.0.x behavior back, you could supply +:format => false+ like this:
+
+<ruby>
+map '*pages' => 'pages#show', :format => false
+</ruby>
+
 h4. Redirection
 
 You can redirect any path to another path using the +redirect+ helper in your router: