Is it better to use routes or mod_rewrite to forward old urls?

Question

I recently changed some URLs in a Rails application, and I wonder if I should use routes + controllers + redirect_to to forward old URLs or just use .htaccess with Apache mod_rewrite?

I use Apache + Passenger, so htaccess files work, but it was curious if there was a standard for this kind of thing.

FWIW, URLs have been changed: http://example.com/user/joeschmoe

: http://example.com/joeschmoe

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