Rails - Jun 2006 - Problem with model and controller dir having same name?

After a rather frustrating couple of hours I finally realised that if 
you generate controllers under a subdirectory, eg /admin/book, 
/admin/account, etc and you also generate a model with name "Admin", 
then rails gets confused and prints a really useless error:

Recognition failed for "/admin/account"


This is with rails 1.1.2.  Can someone please explain:

a) Why this happens
b) How to work around this if I really, really want to have both my 
controllers under an "admin" subdir and also require a model with the 
same name?

Grateful for any insight/workarounds

Ed W

Ed W wrote:
> After a rather frustrating couple of hours I finally realised
> that if you generate controllers under a subdirectory, eg
> /admin/book, /admin/account, etc and you also generate a
> model with name "Admin", then rails gets confused and prints
> a really useless error:
>
> Recognition failed for "/admin/account"
>
> This is with rails 1.1.2.  Can someone please explain:
>
> a) Why this happens
It entirely depends on config/routes.rb.  I assume that since
you didn''t mention it, you''ve left it alone.  In that case,
":controller/:action/:id" will get invoked for a request to
`/admin/account'', and you probably do not have either of:

  app/controllers/admin_controller.rb
  app/views/admin/account.rhtml

because you instead have:

  app/controllers/admin/account_controller.rb

and perhaps:

  app/views/admin/account/index.rhtml

Right?
> b) How to work around this if I really, really want to have
> both my controllers under an "admin" subdir and also require
> a model with the same name?
There''s no limitation to work around -- Rails doesn''t care
about app/models/* when routing requests.  You only need to
tell it how to handle those non-standard URLs:

  map.connect "admin/account/:action/:id", :controller =>
"admin/account"
  map.connect ":controller/:action/:id"

This way, even if you have an AdminController class, Rails
will still look for Admin::AccountController for
`/admin/account/*'' URLs.

-Drew