Wildcard in Express/node.js router

Question

I would like to "get rid" of the router in node.js. Currently, what I have is something that looks like this:

app.get '/thing1', (req, res) ->
    res.render 'thing1'

app.get '/thing2', (req, res) ->
    res.render 'thing2'

Is there a way to collapse these to something like this:

app.get '/(*)', (req, res) ->
    res.render '(*)'

PS: I'm using coffeescript, but an answer in any language is OK

Answer 1

app.get('/:thing', function (req, res) {
  res.render(req.params.thing)
})

Answer 2

From http://expressjs.com/api.html#app.VERB :

app.get(/^(.*)$/, function(req, res, next){
  res.send(req.params[0]);
});

Working gist: https://gist.github.com/elliotf/5826944