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diff --git a/railties/guides/source/routing.textile b/railties/guides/source/routing.textile index d07c634a35..28e5c5b934 100644 --- a/railties/guides/source/routing.textile +++ b/railties/guides/source/routing.textile @@ -250,9 +250,9 @@ Rails allows you to group your controllers into namespaces by saving them in fol map.resources :adminphotos, :controller => "admin/photos" </ruby> -If you use controller namespaces, you need to be aware of a subtlety in the Rails routing code: it always tries to preserve as much of the namespace from the previous request as possible. For example, if you are on a view generated from the +adminphoto_path+ helper, and you follow a link generated with +<%= link_to "show", adminphoto(1) %>+ you will end up on the view generated by +admin/photos/show+ but you will also end up in the same place if you have +<%= link_to "show", {:controller => "photos", :action => "show"} %>+ because Rails will generate the show URL relative to the current URL. +If you use controller namespaces, you need to be aware of a subtlety in the Rails routing code: it always tries to preserve as much of the namespace from the previous request as possible. For example, if you are on a view generated from the +adminphoto_path+ helper, and you follow a link generated with +<%= link_to "show", adminphoto(1) %>+ you will end up on the view generated by +admin/photos/show+, but you will also end up in the same place if you have +<%= link_to "show", {:controller => "photos", :action => "show"} %>+ because Rails will generate the show URL relative to the current URL. -TIP: If you want to guarantee that a link goes to a top-level controller, use a preceding slash to anchor the controller name: +<%= link_to "show", {:controller => "/photos", :action => "show"} %>+ +TIP: If you want to guarantee that a link goes to a top-level controller, use a preceding slash to anchor the controller name: +<%= link_to "show", {:controller => "/photos", :action => "show"} %>+ You can also specify a controller namespace with the +:namespace+ option instead of a path: |