On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 3:58 PM, Andrew Kaspick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Except that using "/" for absolute vs nothing for relative has never
> been a recommended approach when working with parameterized (hash)
> urls.  There is A LOT of code (almost certainly a valid assumption)
> that does not use the "/" method of specifying the controller (which
> is what I have used at the moment) and this nesting behaviour will
> certainly break that code as soon as a nested controller is used.

It's actually been the recommended approach since before 1.0 shipped.
This behaviour has been around for a long long time, and we'd need an
alternative way to distinguish between the nested and non-nested
controller if we were to change it.

> For me a nested controller is the exception to the norm, not the other
> way around.
>
> -1 to the current behavior.

What solution do you have in mind?

> On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 7:31 AM, S. Brent Faulkner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>>
>> +1 to the current behaviour... it's just like accessing a relative
>> file path vs an absolute one.
>>
>> Cheers.
>>
>>
>> On Sep 23, 8:13 am, "Michael Koziarski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>> On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 9:03 AM, Andrew Kaspick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>>
>>> > Hello,
>>>
>>> > I've run across an issue with namespaced controllers and url generation.
>>>
>>> > Fromhttp://github.com/rails/rails/tree/master/actionpack/lib/action_contr...
>>> > (line 322) I'm wondering what the purpose of the section of code with
>>> > this comment is:
>>>
>>> > # if the controller has changed, make sure it changes relative to the
>>> > # current controller module, if any. In other words, if we're currently
>>> > # on admin/get, and the new controller is 'set', the new controller
>>> > # should really be admin/set.
>>>
>>> > My scenario is the following...
>>>
>>> > I have view layout code with link_to's the use a hash to specify the url
>>>
>>> > link_to 'Example', {:controller => 'nonamespace', :action => 'index'}
>>>
>>> > which generates "/nonamespace"
>>>
>>> > But when I access a controller that is namespaced such as
>>> > "/namespace/blah/action", that same link_to now generates
>>> > "/namespace/nonamespace"
>>>
>>> > So from what I can tell the routing code is making an assumption that
>>> > I don't think it should which seems to be that generated urls
>>> > (sepcified with a hash) should remain in the context of the current
>>> > views controller.  In my case it's code for a layout which can apply
>>> > to many controllers, so this assumption is incorrect and causing this
>>> > issue.
>>>
>>> > Can somebody explain the assumption made by the routing code and if
>>> > this is indeed a bug?
>>>
>>> Whether it's a bug or not is kind of a matter of interpretation.  But
>>> the *original intention* here was to support nested controllers with
>>> relative links.  So, f.ex:
>>>
>>> Admin
>>> -  UsersController
>>> -  TagsController
>>> UsersController
>>>
>>> If you're in admin/tags/somethign and link to :controller=>'users'.
>>> Where is it meant to go?  With the current behaviour it will go to
>>> /admin/users which is 'probably' a reasonable assumption.
>>>
>>> You can work around this with :controller=> '/nonamespace' which will
>>> work from anywhere.
>>>
>>> I'm interested in people's opinions on this one, we can't really
>>> change it for 2.2, but for the 2.3.x series we could try and
>>> rationalise all this stuff.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Cheers
>>>
>>> Koz
>> >
>>
>
> >
>



-- 
Cheers

Koz

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