I think that the complex Rails applications such as maintained over years tend to have messy config/routes. Today I'd like to introduce a simple way to keep them clean. The way is really simple. Use with_options for each controller with prefix options. rails>> map.with_options(:controller => 'posts', :name_prefix => 'posts_', :path_prefix => 'posts') do |posts| # posts_rss_path => 'posts/rss' posts.rss 'rss', :action => 'rss' end <<-- Still complex? Okey, I have written the plugin for you. * [map_with_controller](http://svn.s21g.com/public/rails/plugins/map_with_controller/) With this plugin, you can draw the routes belonging to some controller like this. rails>> map.with_controller('posts') do |posts| posts.rss # posts_rss_path => 'posts/rss' end <<-- As you can see, there's one more thing. I have also installed MapperWithController class into RouteSet at this plugin for making named routes be completely DRY. rails>> class MapperWithController def initialize(mapper) @mapper = mapper end def method_missing(name, *args, &block) path, *args = args path ||= name.to_s args.unshift path @mapper.send name, *args, &block end end <<-- `map.namespace :posts` does nearly same thing, but it couldn't be used for this purpose because of it is optimized to making namespaces for a routing. rails howto routes 0 2008-03-14T19:00:30+00:00 488 blue_stole 452 46 /articles/452 2008-03-14T19:00:00+00:00 46007f2f-ef9f-459b-919b-063bffc74afd 2008-03-15T01:57:46+00:00 9