Help with routing

[JoL]

I have a my admin controllers in a folder named admin in my controller folder. It looks something like this:

controllers/admin/authorize_controller.rb

What I want to do is to route the following request "http://www.mypage.com/admin" to that controller, but I don't really know how to do that.

Here is my attempt in the routes.rb file:

  map.connect '/admin',
    :controller => "authorize",
    :action => "authenticate" 

I doesn't work and I'm not really sure on what I'm doing so if anyone knows I would really appreciate your help.

[SRTech]

I was having the same problem the other day as well, but realized that Rails does not need to have a route entry to map to the admin module correctly. (You did generate it as a Admin::authorize right?)

Just remove the route, and try it, maybe using a before_filter to check for the authentication.

[xmitchx]

I'd definitely use a before_filter to check for authentication but to route to something like that you do this:

map.connect '/admin', :controller => 'admin/authorize', :action => 'authenticate'

But in this situation I don't recommend that. Also, watch out in your link_tos and url_fors to use :controller => '/admin/whatever' If you don't put the leading "/" then your URLs will soon get out of hand looking like this:

http://domains.com/admin/admin/controller then to /admin/admin/admin. So remember the leading slash.

[JoL]

Thanks for the reply. Would be interesting hear what you recommend. Is it stupid to have folders in the controller folder? Maybe it's better to make the admin section of a page as component?

Would be interesting to hear how you guys structure a homepage that has both a public and admin version. Do you use shared controllers or do you have on controll for:
news (public controller)
news_admin (admin controller)

It feels important to start structering the page on a good way before going to far in the development.

[xmitchx]

No it's not stupid to have folders in your controller folder. I use the "admin" folder also, there is nothing wrong with it I don't think. The only thing I don't like about it is that you can't change it...

My structure would be

news
admin/news

But that's just me.