Rails Ruby on Rails → 2.x

I just added "map.from_plugin" to the title so this can be found by people missing that functionality from Engines.

There should (must) be a way to define the order of routes set by a plugin. This has been proposed earlier in Ticket #329 and has been closed as duplicate for the current implementation -- that allows no ordering whatsoever and simply doesn't clear routes set by plugins (auto-loading their config/routes.rb file)

The way proposed in #329 might be sufficient but one could go all the way now by allowing plugins themselves to define their route positions, like so:

ActionController::Routing::Routes.draw do |map|
  map.fourohfour '*path', :controller => 'errors', :action => 'show', :position => :last
  map.fourohfour '*path', :controller => 'errors', :action => 'show', :position => :first
  map.fourohfour '*path', :controller => 'errors', :action => 'show', :position => {:before => :root}
  map.fourohfour '*path', :controller => 'errors', :action => 'show', :position => {:after => :root}
end

Making it more specific than that would be overkill, imho. All I am looking for right now, for example, is to place a catch-all route like above at the very end of routes. If one needs more specific placement, one should go with the approach of Ticket #329

Now I might actually go ahead and implement this in some fashion as I need it right now, so if there's no taker, I might have a patch up next week.