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DRY Polymorphic Routes In Rails 2.3.8
// Say you have a Post base class and BlogPost and WikiPost subclasses. And you want to map them all to a single controller so you can use 1 set of views. Do this in your routes:
map.resources :posts, :controller => :posts, :requirements => {:type => "post"}
map.resources :blog_posts, :controller => :posts, :requirements => {:type => "blog_post"}
map.resources :wiki_posts, :controller => :posts, :requirements => {:type => "wiki_posts"}
// Then in the PostsController, you can get the type with
params[:type].camelize.constantize
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