A route to serve static assets (like .jpgs, etc?)

Question

I\'ve worked my way through a number of interesting routing problems - turning a request URL into a hash, etc., but just out of curiosity, is there a way to tell the routing sys

Answer 1

Caveat: if your request URL matches a static resource WEBrick, mongrel or whatever will happily serve it. At any cost, you don't want this in production: if your traffic is high enough your app will be brought to its knees just because its mongrels will be busy serving static content.

So make sure that your web server is properly configured for all kinds of static content as the previous commenters have pointed out.