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Seo – Rails multiple routes to same action?

I submitted my sitemap to google as example.com/sitemap where example.com is my domain Watching my server access log requests come in for sitemap.txt and sitemap.xml Can I just add routes for sitemap.txt and sitemap.xml for a total of 3 routes to the same controller action? I thought of "redirect" but I don’t think it applies

What should I do with requests for sitemap.xml and sitemap.txt when I’m already serving requests to /sitemap

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    yes you definitely can easily route to the same action, the file suffix (.xml, .txt, .html etc) is defined as a parameter in your routes file. So for example you might define a route like this:

    # config/routes.rb
get 'sitemap(.:format)', to 'sitemap.index'

    In your SitemapController, the index method would receive a params hash that includes the :format key, with a value of ‘xml’, ‘txt’, ‘html’. Does that meet your needs?

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    You don’t have to do anything. Rails will automatically handle extensions.

    Lets say you have one of these routes:

    # Both of these options generate the same routes
get :sitemap, to: 'sitemaps#show'
resource :sitemap, only: :show

    If you run rails routes -c sitemap you can see that it matches the pattern /sitemap(.:format).

     Prefix Verb URI Pattern        Controller#Action
sitemap GET  /sitemap(.:format) sitemaps#show

    To respond to various formats you can either just create views for each format and use implicit rendering if what you’re doing is very simple:

    class SitemapsController < ApplicationController
  # GET /sitemaps.txt
  # GET /sitemaps.xml
  def show
    # this is optional but it can be good to enumerate which formats 
    # you should actually accept
    respond_to :txt, :xml
  end
end

    This will render app/views/sitemaps/show.#{format}.html.erb.

    Or you can use MimeResponds to handle each type explicitly:

    class SitemapsController < ApplicationController
  # GET /sitemaps.txt
  # GET /sitemaps.xml
  def show
    respond_to do |format|
      format.txt { ... }
      format.xml { ... }
    end
  end
end

    This can be a good idea if you’re for example generating the XML without a view. Or you can even do a mix by omitting the block.

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