============== Route Recipes ============== A few common things people will most likely want to setup with Routes. Adding a Root/Default Page ========================== Despite being considered the default route, ``m.connect(':controller/:action/:id')`` *won't actually call any of your controllers if you give it a URL like '/'*. When many people think of their *default page*, they're thinking about what happens when you go to ``http://somehost.com/``. To setup a controller/action to handle this case, the `route path `_ will actually be empty. Here's an example:: m.connect('', controller='blog', action='index') # Or for a named home route m.connect('home', '', controller='blog', action='index') # Which you then could use like so: url_for('home') Special Processing of a File ============================ Perhaps you have a set of normal files available, and would like to enable a special operation on them. In this case we'll use a fictitious action called ``filter`` that is assumed to exist for our controllers:: m.connect('*file/:controller', action=filter) Now we can match any URL that has a valid ``controller`` name at the end of it. This is then called with everything before the controller as the ``file`` keyword argument.