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Route to root of a namespace

#3853

In Rails 2.3.x, you could do the following:

map.namespace :admin do |admin|
  admin.root :controller => "admin"
end

It appears this functionality is missing in the Rails 3 router. Neither of the following match /admin:

namespace :admin do
  root :to => 'admin#index'
  match '' => 'admin#index'
end

Reported by James · February 4th, 2010 @ 06:41 PM

josh
- State changed from new to invalid
I didn't realize that worked, but thats not the purpose of "root". The original intent was to provide a convention "root_url" named route plugins, etc could depend on. It doesn't make sense in the nested context.

February 5th, 2010 @ 03:00 PM
James
Josh,

Previously it provided the "admin_root_url" named route, which seems to me like a great convention as it kept everything (including the index) within the context of admin. Even if you do consider this an "invalid" request, how would you recommend defining the root of a namespace?

James

February 5th, 2010 @ 04:58 PM
Mark Connell
This does actually work in the new DSL, however you have to explicitly set the namespace in the :to

In rails 2 if you had an Admin::Posts controller the following would have worked:
```
# http://localhost:3000/admin
map.namespace :admin do |admin|
  admin.root :controller => 'posts'
end
```
And the admin.root automagically picked up the namespace context. To do the same in the new routing, the following examples work:
```
# http://localhost:3000/admin
namespace :admin do
  root :to => "admin/posts#index"
end

# http://localhost:3000/admin
namespace :admin do
  root :to => "Admin::Posts#index"
end
```
February 8th, 2010 @ 02:09 PM
James
Is there any reason we should need to explicitly set the namespace in the :to when we're within the namespace block? Seems like it should know about the namespace context and avoid duplication.

February 8th, 2010 @ 11:21 PM