Overriding named routes provided by Rails 3 Engines

Question

I am working on a Ruby on Rails 3(.0) application that uses a Rails engine. However, in my local application, I want to override one of the routes provided by the Rails engi

Answer 1

Routing rules defined in routes.rb are applied from the top down until a match is found. I was able to override the route defined in the mounted engine simply by moving the higher-priority rule above the line where the engine is mounted. So,

get 'about', controller: 'static', action: 'about', as: 'about'
mount My::Engine => '/'

results in the app routing /about/ requests to (in this case) the static controller, whereas:

mount My::Engine => '/'
get 'about', controller: 'static', action: 'about', as: 'about'

results in the app routing /about/ requests to the route defined in the mounted engine.