Question

The situation is simple. In Rails 2.3.3, I’ve got a “Staff” namespace, and controllers in there inherit from the StaffController. That StaffController itself handles the Staff namespace’s root:

map.namespace :staff do |staff|
  staff.root  :controller=>'staff',
              :action=>'index'
  # ...
end

In development mode, that works fine. In production mode, however, this breaks:

uninitialized constant Staff::StaffController

among other issues, such as certain helpers rendering incorrectly in the Staff namespace.

Why do development and production mode act behave differently in this context, and what can I do to fix it?

Answer 1

What happens if you run rake routes in both production and development modes?

That might help you narrow it down to (as bensie mentioned) a hosting stack vs. framework/code issue.