Routing and namespace

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I'm trying to set up and 'admin' interface for each of my models.

I have a controller for each of them under 'app/controllers/admin/'                 book_controller.rb                 page_controller.rb and so on.

So as not to get in the way of normal use I'm 'forcing' a prefix in the routing/url with lines in routes.rb like

map.connect '/admin/page/:page/:action',               :controller => 'admin/page_controller',               :action => 'show',               :requirements => { :page => page_name_requirement }

when I experiment with app.url_for() in the console I get the results I expect.

But when I fire up the server and try to go to

   http://localhost.:3000/admin/page/ChapterOne

I get

NameError in Admin/web controllerController#list

uninitialized constant Admin::WebControllerController

Two questions:

Should my controller read:

    class Admin::WebController < ApplicationController

which was how it was generated

and/or should the routing be fudged in some way.

Remember, this is not the 'real' application. The real application comes out at

       http://localhost.:3000/TheStoryofLitchfileld/ChapterOne

and the routing for that is lower down in the routes.rb

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If you have a controller in app/controllers/admin/book_controller.rb defined like this:

class Admin::BookController < ApplicationController

Then the default route to the controller will be /admin/book. There is no need to add anything to routes.rb, it will "just work".

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Paul Barry said the following on 02/19/2007 12:16 PM:

If you have a controller in app/controllers/admin/book_controller.rb defined like this:

class Admin::BookController < ApplicationController

Then the default route to the controller will be /admin/book. There is no need to add anything to routes.rb, it will "just work".

Ah. I see, that picks up on the default.

Now what about my custom application route, then. It is supposed to be

       http://localhost:3000/TheStoryofLitchfileld/ChapterOne

aka ":book/:chapter" and that goes to the book_chapter_controller.rb

There is path before it to indicate the namespace or the controller.