Thank you for noticing the missing “require” part of my examples. Actually I don’t use an explicit require statement for this. I’ve placed all my middleware files in a dedicated folder, and then added this folder to Rails’ autoload_path. I’ve updated the article with this solution, but also explained how to do the simple “require” stuff.

I am glad that this has helped you. I actually chose middleware to solving the casing issue for exactly the same reason, that you mention: I did not want my routing code or any other part of the rails application to have special hacks, for case-difference to work.

- Carste

First, thanks for the middleware. I’ve inherited a Rails app and haven’t worked with the routing mechanism much, having a personal preference to stick to rails default controller/action/id mechanism. This new app I’m working on makes extensive use of routes, so I was looking for a quick solution to the case insensitive issue.

Second, I noticed that your Initializer modifications don’t require ‘downcase_route_middleware’. This might seem a slight oversight, but for those of us yet unfamiliar with Rack, it was troublesome to find the problem.

Thanks!

- Carsten

Anyway, I’ve updated the examples above to take care of both cases, as well as shown the correct way to add the middleware in Rails 3 (which is also the way you are doing it).

I hope this solves your problem. Thanks for pointing it out.

- Carsten

-Carsten

I will look more into it, and let you know here, if this is not the case.

- Carsten