This works, but you will need to go edit all your links to the index to say things like courses_path('AA') and you won't be able to use some of the nice helpers, like form_for, which assume you are following the convention that #create is simply #index with a POST request. (Get comfortable with form_tag).
I'm afraid this won't work since the structure that maps paths to controllers and actions is setup on start of the rails application, parameter handling happens at request time.
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