Comments on: RESTful admin namespaced controller using scaffolding

By: Slobodan Kovačević

Slobodan Kovačević — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 10:41:52 +0000

@Ankit The whole point is to have one model which is used for both frontend and admin controllers.

By: Ankit Varshney

Ankit Varshney — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 04:27:33 +0000

And also there is no need to run two separate commands one for controller and one for scaffold. Simply run :

./script/generate scaffold admin/user name:string

This is true for Rails 2.3.5.

By: Ankit Varshney

Ankit Varshney — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 04:21:23 +0000

Why don’t we move user model in admin folder? Like admin\user.rb and also changing the class name to Admin::User. By doing this there is no need to put :admin in any RESTful path.

By: Jamesw

Jamesw — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 19:04:23 +0000

@Daniel the destroy link should use the [:admin, user] notation.
link_to ‘Destroy’, [:admin, theme], :confirm => ‘Are you sure?’, :method => :delete

By: pawel

pawel — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 12:37:19 +0000

Thanks Slobodan, it’s a very useful tutorial. I have a one question: is it exists some newer solution? I ask you because this was posted on September 2008.

Greetings from Poland

By: Slobodan Kovačević

Slobodan Kovačević — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 09:46:35 +0000

Zak, to “protect the namespace” you actually need to limit access to each controller (their actions to be precise) within that namespace. Usually you will add some before_filters that will handle authorization. Something like this:

before_filter :admin_only

Exact way to do this varies depending on what you use (if any) as an user system. For example, if you use Clearance you can do like this: http://wiki.github.com/thoughtbot/clearance/admin

By: Zak

Zak — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 21:36:45 +0000

Do you think it’d be possible for you to teach us how to password protect the admin namespace?

By: Daniel

Daniel — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 23:42:16 +0000

…[head thumps against wall]…

link_to “Show”, [:admin, @user]
link_to “Edit”, edit_admin_user_path(@user)
link_to “Destroy”, user, :confirm => ‘Are you sure?’, :method => :delete

By: Daniel

Daniel — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 23:41:21 +0000

…arrrgh, the code got cut out. Here’s the problematic code:

‘Are you sure?’, :method => :delete %>

By: Daniel

Daniel — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 23:39:32 +0000

Thanks for the really helpful code. I’m trying to do this operation with admin and users (rather than categories) but getting a path error.

The links in my admin/users index.html.erb page are causing errors. For example, the first “show” link is causing an “undefined method `admin_path’ for

Here’s the offending code on my index.html.erb

‘Are you sure?’, :method => :delete

I have the following in my routes….

map.namespace :admin do |admin|
admin.resources :users
end

Any thoughts on what I’ve done wrong? Thanks in advance for any help or suggestions!

Daniel