Possible to create this redirecting route in Rails?

Assuming rails version prior to 3.

You can create a new RedirectController or tuck a single function away in an existing controller, to do something like the following:

map.js_embed '/j/e',
    :controller => :redirect_controller,
    :action => :some_function,
    :path => "embed"

Then your function would do this:

def some_function
  if params[:path]
    redirect_to "/javascripts/#{params[:path]}.js"
  end
end

or something for that effect.

In Rails 4 and above

get '/stories', to: redirect('/posts')

In case you need a named route, you may want to add an explicit as parameter:

get '/stories', to: redirect('/posts'), as: :however_you_want_to_name_it

Source: Redirection @ guides.rubyonrails.org

In Rails 3, you can redirect inside the routes.rb file.

match "/posts/github" => redirect("http://github.com/rails.atom")

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