Question

I would like to use the :as parameter on a namespaced route, like so:

routes.rb

map.namespace :banana, :as => 'apple', do |banana|
  ...
end

But it seems that the :as parameter is only available to map.resources. Am I missing something, should I refactor my routes?

I’m stuck on Rails 2.3.8 for this situation.

Answer 1

:as is for map.resource only, since it is used as a way to override the route, instead of using the Model’s class name. Here are the 2.3 Rails docs

Why bother with :as => 'apple' and just use apple as the namespace?

map.namespace :apple do |apple|
  ...
end