Routes ressources and namespace

Rails
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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

2

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:

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

3

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

Am 17.05.2012 um 13:41 schrieb angel david: