Changing the route behaviour but keeping the "Convention over Configuration" - ruby-on-rails

Question

I am using Ruby on Rails 3.0.7 and in my application I have an Users::Article class (note that it is namespaced). In the routes.rb file it is stated as follow:
resources :users do
resources :articles
end
I would like to set the route related to the Users::Article class so that I can access that at the URL /articles, /articles/new, /articles/1 and /articles/1/edit but I would like to still use the RoR Convention over Configuration "system". That is, I would like to use:
Users::ArticlesHelper;
views/users/articles/<file_name>.html.erb view files;
named routes (<name>_path and <name>_url);
and others "a là Ruby on Rails Way"...
How can I do that?
In few words, for example, I would like to refer to the /articles/1 path but making the application to work exactly as it is considering the users/<user_id>/articles/1 path.

Answer 1

it's not an estetic matter, but it's related to parameters for routing.
you can use /articles/:id and then refer to the owner (User) inside controller.
in the second case /users/:user_id/articles/:id will pass 2 params to controller.

Answer 2

From the ActionDispatch::Routing::Mapper::Resources docs:
:shallow
# Generates shallow routes for nested resource(s). When placed on a parent
# resource, generates shallow routes for all nested resources.
resources :posts, :shallow => true do
resources :comments
end
# Is the same as:
resources :posts do
resources :comments, :except => [:show, :edit, :update, :destroy]
end
resources :comments, :only => [:show, :edit, :update, :destroy]
# This allows URLs for resources that otherwise would be deeply nested such as a
# comment on a blog post like /posts/a-long-permalink/comments/1234 to be
# shortened to just /comments/1234.

Answer 3

To get this from >rake routes
users_articles GET /articles(.:format) {:action=>"index", :controller=>"users/articles"}
POST /articles(.:format) {:action=>"create", :controller=>"users/articles"}
new_users_article GET /articles/new(.:format) {:action=>"new", :controller=>"users/articles"}
edit_users_article GET /articles/:id/edit(.:format) {:action=>"edit", :controller=>"users/articles"}
users_article GET /articles/:id(.:format) {:action=>"show", :controller=>"users/articles"}
PUT /articles/:id(.:format) {:action=>"update", :controller=>"users/articles"}
DELETE /articles/:id(.:format) {:action=>"destroy", :controller=>"users/articles"}
We need this in our routes.rb
namespace :users, :path => '' do
resources :articles
end
Note: I am using :namespace as that is what you stated.
Hope this helps.