Question

Actually I don’t understand how to correctly handle this. I have a situation where news could be managed with admin/edit admin/show admin/news… and similar paths, however I want to give users a page called news/show/1, because actually my news resources are routed under “admin” namespace, how should I handle the fact that I need to bind news routes outside “admin” namespace?

Actually I have only this:

namespace :admin do
  resources :news
end

My Idea:

namespace :admin do
  resources :news
end
resources :news

Then I’ll have:

• app/controllers/admin/news_controller.rb
• app/controllers/news_controller.rb

Is this correct?

Answer 1

Seeing your answer, I can suggest more simpler routes.

#routes.rb
namespace :admin do
  resources :news
end

resources :news, :only => [:show]

If you want index action too, rewrite the last line as:

resources :news, :only => [:index, :show]

You won’t need the helper for news_path and news_url. You will get them already built for you.