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diff --git a/railties/doc/guides/routing/routing_outside_in.txt b/railties/doc/guides/routing/routing_outside_in.txt
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+++ b/railties/doc/guides/routing/routing_outside_in.txt
@@ -267,10 +267,28 @@ Rails allows you to group your controllers into namespaces by saving them in fol
map.resources :adminphotos, :controller => "admin/photos"
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-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"} %>+
+You can also specify a controller namespace with the +:namespace+ option instead of a path:
+
+[source, ruby]
+-------------------------------------------------------
+map.resources :adminphotos, :namespace => "admin", :controller => "photos"
+-------------------------------------------------------
+
+This can be especially useful when combined with +with_options+ to map multiple namespaced routes together:
+
+[source, ruby]
+-------------------------------------------------------
+map.with_options(:namespace => "admin") do |admin|
+ admin.resources :photos, :videos
+end
+-------------------------------------------------------
+
+That would give you routing for +admin/photos+ and +admin/videos+ controllers.
+
==== Using :singular
If for some reason Rails isn't doing what you want in converting the plural resource name to a singular name in member routes, you can override its judgment with the +:singular+ option: