diff --git a/reroute.cabal b/reroute.cabal
--- a/reroute.cabal
+++ b/reroute.cabal
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 name:                reroute
-version:             0.2.2.0
+version:             0.2.2.1
 synopsis:            abstract implementation of typed and untyped web routing
 description:         abstraction over how urls with/without parameters are mapped to their corresponding handlers
 homepage:            http://github.com/agrafix/reroute
@@ -13,22 +13,24 @@
 cabal-version:       >=1.10
 
 library
-  exposed-modules:     Data.HVect,
+  exposed-modules:
+                       Data.HVect,
                        Data.PolyMap,
                        Web.Routing.AbstractRouter,
                        Web.Routing.SafeRouting,
                        Web.Routing.TextRouting
-  build-depends:       base >=4.6 && <4.8,
-                       transformers >=0.3,
-                       text >= 0.11.3.1,
-                       unordered-containers ==0.2.*,
-                       regex-compat ==0.95.*,
+  build-depends:
+                       base >=4.6 && <5,
+                       deepseq >= 1.1.0.2,
+                       graph-core >=0.2.1,
                        hashable >=1.2,
                        mtl >=2.1,
                        path-pieces >=0.1,
-                       vector >=0.10,
-                       deepseq >= 1.1.0.2,
-                       graph-core >=0.2.1
+                       regex-compat >=0.95,
+                       text >= 0.11.3.1,
+                       transformers >=0.3,
+                       unordered-containers >=0.2,
+                       vector >=0.10
   hs-source-dirs:      src
   default-language:    Haskell2010
   ghc-options: -Wall -fno-warn-orphans
@@ -38,20 +40,17 @@
   type:                exitcode-stdio-1.0
   hs-source-dirs:      test
   main-is:             Spec.hs
-  other-modules:       Web.Routing.SafeRoutingSpec, Web.Routing.TextRoutingSpec
-  build-depends:       base >=4.6 && <4.8,
+  other-modules:
+                       Web.Routing.SafeRoutingSpec,
+                       Web.Routing.TextRoutingSpec
+  build-depends:
+                       base,
+                       hspec,
+                       mtl,
                        reroute,
-                       transformers >=0.3,
-                       text >= 0.11.3.1,
-                       unordered-containers ==0.2.*,
-                       regex-compat ==0.95.*,
-                       hashable >=1.2,
-                       mtl >=2.1,
-                       path-pieces >=0.1,
-                       hspec == 2.*,
-                       vector >=0.10,
-                       deepseq >= 1.1.0.2,
-                       graph-core >=0.2.1
+                       text,
+                       unordered-containers,
+                       vector
   default-language:    Haskell2010
   ghc-options: -Wall -fno-warn-orphans
 
diff --git a/src/Web/Routing/AbstractRouter.hs b/src/Web/Routing/AbstractRouter.hs
--- a/src/Web/Routing/AbstractRouter.hs
+++ b/src/Web/Routing/AbstractRouter.hs
@@ -101,7 +101,7 @@
           case HM.lookup ty hm of
             Nothing -> []
             Just registry ->
-                matchRoute registry route
+                matchRoute registry (filter (not . T.null) route)
       initSt =
           RegistryState
           { rs_registry = HM.empty
diff --git a/test/Web/Routing/SafeRoutingSpec.hs b/test/Web/Routing/SafeRoutingSpec.hs
--- a/test/Web/Routing/SafeRoutingSpec.hs
+++ b/test/Web/Routing/SafeRoutingSpec.hs
@@ -29,9 +29,11 @@
     describe "SafeRouting Spec" $
     do it "should match known routes" $
           do checkRoute "" [StrVar "root"]
+             checkRoute "/" [StrVar "root"]
              checkRoute "/bar" [StrVar "bar"]
        it "should capture variables in routes" $
           do checkRoute "/bar/23/baz" [IntVar 23]
+             checkRoute "/bar/23/baz/" [IntVar 23]
              checkRoute "/bar/23/baz/100" [ListVar [IntVar 23, IntVar 100]]
              checkRoute "/bar/23/100" [ListVar [IntVar 23, IntVar 100]]
              checkRoute "/entry/344/2014-20-14T12:23" [ListVar [IntVar 344, StrVar "2014-20-14T12:23"]]
diff --git a/test/Web/Routing/TextRoutingSpec.hs b/test/Web/Routing/TextRoutingSpec.hs
--- a/test/Web/Routing/TextRoutingSpec.hs
+++ b/test/Web/Routing/TextRoutingSpec.hs
@@ -29,8 +29,10 @@
     do it "shouldn't match unknown routes" $
           do matchRoute "random" routingTree `shouldBe` noMatches
              matchRoute "/baz" routingTree `shouldBe` noMatches
+             matchRoute "/baz/" routingTree `shouldBe` noMatches
        it "should match known routes" $
           do matchRoute "/" routingTree `shouldBe` oneMatch emptyParamMap [1]
+             matchRoute "" routingTree `shouldBe` oneMatch emptyParamMap [1]
              matchRoute "/bar" routingTree `shouldBe` oneMatch emptyParamMap [2]
        it "should capture variables in routes" $
           do matchRoute "/bar/5" routingTree `shouldBe` oneMatch (vMap [("baz", "5")]) [3]