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Redirect batch of urls from routes.rb – SEO

For SEO purpose, I have to redirect bunch of urls (something like 200) for now, maybe more later, maybe less.
I want to have easy access to it. So I thought about having a dedicated file containing all urls I need to redirect.
Something like

# config/seo_redirection_table.yml

- old_path: '/old/path/1'
  new_path: '/new_path_1'
  status: 301 
- old_path: '/old/path/2'
  new_path: '/new_path_2'
  status: 301

And then in my routes.rb mapping this file at the very top.
Is it a good practice ? What do you think ? And how can I handle this logic in my routes.rb.

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  1. 0

    You could do it in routes.rb like so:

    get '/old/path/:id', to: redirect('/new_path_%{id}', status: 301)

    So you don’t need to create a lot of static routes and one test will be enough instead to write tests for the static routes.

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  2. 0

    If you’d like to have your redirect rules within your code base, your approach is fine. Since the rules are static you can load them upon routes creation:

    # config/routes.rb

require 'yaml'

Rails.application.routes.draw do
  redirects = YAML.load_file('config/redirects.yml')
  redirects.each do |rule|
    get rule["old_path"], to: redirect(rule["new_path"], status: rule["status"])
  end

  # other routes
end

    You may also consider using a library:

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