Have you ever wanted to write Rails routes using a URL's subdomain? What about routing based on whether a request was HTTP vs HTTPS? Well, now you can. Recently Dan Webb released his "Request Routing Plugin":http://svn.vivabit.net/external/rubylibs/requestrouting/README for public use. This plugin lets you create routing rules that use a whole slew of new properties: domain, subdomain, method, port, remoteip, contenttype, accepts, requesturi, and protocol.
You can obtain the plugin from Dan's subversion repository:
ruby script/plugin install http://svn.danwebb.net/external/rails/plugins/request_routing/