Allowing dots in Rails routes

18/06/2020
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One of the lesser known thing about how Rails matches the route segments with incoming requests.The default regular expression used for a route segment is /[^\/.?] /. It matches any combination of characters that is not a forward slash, dot or question mark.Because of this, when we hit users/john.smith/upgrade, it is matched with following regular expression by Rails.
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