Comments on: RESTful admin namespaced controller using scaffolding

By: Daren

Daren — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 18:04:30 +0000

Sorry ignore my previous comment, it was simply a Rails 3 Beta issue, I was not including the default javascript files, specifically rails.js and prototype.js…all working fine now!

By: Daren

Daren — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 17:27:18 +0000

@Jamesw – for me the destroy link actually goes to the Show Action, rather than destroying the record.

Did anyone else have the same problem? Has anyone got a solution for this?

By: Slobodan Kovačević

Slobodan Kovačević — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 08:00:40 +0000

@Reinaldo As far as I know there’s no option to generate scaffold specifically for certain namespace.

By: Reinaldo

Reinaldo — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 20:32:11 +0000

Is it possible to create a command like

./script/generate scaffold_admin user name:string

and the structures will be created on the right places?

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