required segments in routing

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Hi

Has anyone an explanation why the following routing is not working?

ActionController::Routing::Routes.draw do |map|   map.namespace :admin do |admin|     admin.connect ':controller/:action/:id'     admin.connect ':controller/:action/:id.:format'   end   map.connect ':controller/:action/:id'   map.connect ':controller/:action/:id.:format' end

The following error message ist caused only by “admin.connect ':controller/:action/:id.:format'”. Route segment ":controller" cannot be optional because it precedes a required segment. This segment will be required.

Replacing it with the following rule works fine:

  map.connect 'admin/users/:action.:format', { :controller => 'admin/ users' }

Interestingly, the variant without explicit format works fine under the namespace…

Any idea?

$am