How Would you Mimic an Arbitrary Directory Structure with Rails Routes?

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I want to be able to map Google Docs' folder system to urls in my application and am just wondering how I can say "route, I want you to match an arbitrary set of nodes, and the last one is the file (or possibly a directory, I can check in the controller)".

So I could do things like:

www.mysite.com/documents/folder1/childfolderA/document
www.mysite.com/documents/root-level-doc

Can the routes.rb file do something like this?

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