Rails2 to rails3 routes migration problem - namespaces

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Hello,

I've got some problems migrating from rails2 to rails3: I have some controllers in a subdirectory, and I want to access them in a non-restful/resourceful way.

Previously I just created a controller in /util, prefixed the class name with Util:: and it worked, that is /util/controller_name/action_name was routed properly.

I was trying various approaches with :namespace, e.g.:

namespace :util do     match ':controller(/:action(/:id(.:format)))' end

but that throws an exception during boot: ":controller segment is not allowed within a namespace block"

What is the proper way to map such controllers?

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The Routing guide seems to cover this topic pretty well:

http://edgeguides.rubyonrails.org/routing.html#dynamic-segments

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Ah, I was looking for a proper :namespace usage. This indeed helps, though now I have:

  match ':controller(/:action(/:id))', :controller => /tabs\/[^\/]+/   match ':controller(/:action(/:id))', :controller => /util\/[^\/]+/   match ':controller(/:action(/:id(.:format)))'

which may not seem obvious at first. But you just need a way to tell Rails to look beyond the first / when finding the controller name.

Thanks, Adam