How do I use a Rack middleware only for certain paths?

Question

I\'d like to have MyMiddleware run in my Rack app, but only for certain paths. I was hoping to use Rack::Builder or at least Rack::URLMap

Answer 1

You could have MyMiddleware check the path and not pass control to the next piece of middle ware if it matches.

class MyMiddleware
  def initialize app
    @app = app
  end
  def call env
    middlewary_stuff if env['PATH_INFO'] == '/foo'
    @app.call env
  end

  def middlewary_stuff
    #...
  end
end

Or, you could use URLMap w/o the dslness. It would look something like this:

main_app = MainApp.new
Rack::URLMap.new '/'=>main_app, /^(foo|bar)/ => MyMiddleWare.new(main_app)

URLMap is actually pretty simple to grok.