diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 7462bd8f4..dba231764 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](http://semver.org/).
 ### Added
 
 - "Matches" operation that can be used when defining conditionals [PR #975](https://github.com/3scale/apicast/pull/975)
-- New routing policy that selects an upstream based on the request path, a header, a query argument, or a jwt claim [PR #976](https://github.com/3scale/apicast/pull/976), [PR #983](https://github.com/3scale/apicast/pull/983), [THREESCALE-1709](https://issues.jboss.org/browse/THREESCALE-1709)
+- New routing policy that selects an upstream based on the request path, a header, a query argument, or a jwt claim [PR #976](https://github.com/3scale/apicast/pull/976), [PR #983](https://github.com/3scale/apicast/pull/983), [PR #984](https://github.com/3scale/apicast/pull/984), [THREESCALE-1709](https://issues.jboss.org/browse/THREESCALE-1709)
 - Added "last" attribute in the mapping rules. When set to true indicates that, if the rule matches, APIcast should not try to match the rules placed after this one [PR #982](https://github.com/3scale/apicast/pull/982), [THREESCALE-1344](https://issues.jboss.org/browse/THREESCALE-1344)
 
 ### Changed
diff --git a/gateway/src/apicast/policy/routing/README.md b/gateway/src/apicast/policy/routing/README.md
index ffde18c34..3c9de98f4 100644
--- a/gateway/src/apicast/policy/routing/README.md
+++ b/gateway/src/apicast/policy/routing/README.md
@@ -7,8 +7,10 @@
 - [**Rule that uses a jwt claim**](#rule-that-uses-a-jwt-claim)
 - [**Rule with several operations**](#rule-with-several-operations)
 - [**Combining rules**](#combining-rules)
+- [**"Catch-all" rules**](#catch-all-rules)
 - [**Supported operations**](#supported-operations)
 - [**Liquid templating**](#liquid-templating)
+- [**Set the host used in the Host header**](#set-the-host-used-in-the-host-header)
 
 ## Description
 
@@ -259,6 +261,55 @@ This is a configuration with several rules:
   }
 ```
 
+## "Catch-all" rules
+
+A rule without operations always matches. This can be useful to define
+"catch-all" rules. Here's a configuration that routes the request to
+`http://some_upstream.com` if the path is `/abc`, routes the request to
+`http://another_upstream.com` if the path is `/def`, and finally, routes the
+request to `http://default_upstream.com` if none of the previous rules evaluated
+to true:
+```json
+  {
+    "name": "routing",
+    "version": "builtin",
+    "configuration": {
+      "rules": [
+        {
+          "url": "http://some_upstream.com",
+          "condition": {
+            "operations": [
+              {
+                "match": "path",
+                "op": "==",
+                "value": "/abc"
+              }
+            ]
+          }
+        },
+        {
+          "url": "http://another_upstream.com",
+          "condition": {
+            "operations": [
+              {
+                "match": "path",
+                "op": "==",
+                "value": "/def"
+              }
+            ]
+          }
+        },
+        {
+          "url": "http://default_upstream.com",
+          "condition": {
+            "operations": []
+          }
+        }
+      ]
+    }
+  }
+```
+
 ## Supported operations
 
 The supported operations are `==`, `!=`, and `matches`. The latter matches a
diff --git a/gateway/src/apicast/policy/routing/apicast-policy.json b/gateway/src/apicast/policy/routing/apicast-policy.json
index 786c8e264..99b36d417 100644
--- a/gateway/src/apicast/policy/routing/apicast-policy.json
+++ b/gateway/src/apicast/policy/routing/apicast-policy.json
@@ -144,13 +144,15 @@
                   }
                 },
                 "combine_op": {
+                  "description": "With 'and', the condition will be true only when all the operations evaluate to true. With 'or', the condition will be true when at least one operation evaluates to true.",
                   "type": "string",
                   "enum": ["and", "or"],
                   "default": "and"
                 }
               }
             }
-          }
+          },
+          "required": ["url"]
         }
       }
     }
diff --git a/gateway/src/apicast/policy/routing/upstream_selector.lua b/gateway/src/apicast/policy/routing/upstream_selector.lua
index 4234b2169..e78aa8f82 100644
--- a/gateway/src/apicast/policy/routing/upstream_selector.lua
+++ b/gateway/src/apicast/policy/routing/upstream_selector.lua
@@ -25,6 +25,8 @@ function _M.select(_, rules, context)
     local cond_is_true = rule.condition:evaluate(context)
 
     if cond_is_true then
+      ngx.log(ngx.DEBUG, 'Rule with URL ', rule.url, ' matched')
+
       local upstream = Upstream.new(rule.url)
 
       if rule.host_header and rule.host_header ~= '' then
diff --git a/t/apicast-policy-routing.t b/t/apicast-policy-routing.t
index e3481760d..1ac49b913 100644
--- a/t/apicast-policy-routing.t
+++ b/t/apicast-policy-routing.t
@@ -1395,3 +1395,47 @@ yay, api backend
 --- error_code: 200
 --- no_error_log
 [error]
+
+=== TEST 21: matches a rule with an empty condition (it has no operations)
+--- configuration
+{
+  "services": [
+    {
+      "id": 42,
+      "proxy": {
+        "policy_chain": [
+          {
+            "name": "apicast.policy.routing",
+            "configuration": {
+              "rules": [
+                {
+                  "url": "http://test:$TEST_NGINX_SERVER_PORT",
+                  "condition": {
+                    "operations": [
+                    ]
+                  }
+                }
+              ]
+            }
+          },
+          {
+            "name": "apicast.policy.echo"
+          }
+        ]
+      }
+    }
+  ]
+}
+--- upstream
+  location / {
+     content_by_lua_block {
+       ngx.say('yay, api backend');
+     }
+  }
+--- request
+GET /
+--- response_body
+yay, api backend
+--- error_code: 200
+--- no_error_log
+[error]