routes ressources and namespace

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Hi all, I created a namespace for my categories resource. I removed the show action because otherwise I would get this kind of route for my show action: /admin/categories/:id

namespace :admin do

resources :categories, :except => :show

end

What I want for the show action is a route like this: **/categories/:name **

I achieved this with the help of this mapping:

match ‘categories/:name’ => ‘admin/categories#show’, :as => :category

But now I’m wondering if this could also be configured in the same way in the namespace/resource configuration?

What’s also strange that if I remove the admin from the matched route (match …. => 'categories#show) I got the following error:

uninitialized constant CategoriesController

Is this because I added an except for the show method in the resources configuration?

Is my matched route a correct way of solving my problem with the route or is there another way?

Thanks for your help.

Cheers Greg

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Hi Greg,

Its one of the way to change the name space.

Regarding the error:

Categories controller might have been under admin module.

If you check app/controllers/admin, you will c categories controller.

The routes - match 'categories/:name' => 'admin/categories#show', :as => :category

goes to admin->categories controller.

If you change this to be like this,

match 'categories/:name' => 'categories#show', :as => :category

It searches for categories controller which is not present..

Regards,

Angel

Greg wrote in post #1061118:

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Hi Angel, you are right the error occurs because my categories controller is under admin/categories_controller. Now the error makes sense.

Regards the configuration of my route. I think I will leave it as it is because it's working how I expect it.

Cheers Greg