noob question regarding site and table naming structure

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I'm a newbie at Rails and Ruby so please bear with me:

I'm trying to build a simple application that has an administration system that manages organizations and products. I want the model/views/ controllers for 'organizations' and 'products' to be within the 'admin' part of the site, so I created a controller for admin first:

generate controller admin

then I created scaffolding like thus:

generate scaffold admin/organization generate scaffold admin/product

everything seems fine so far, the tables created through the migration were admin_organizations and admin_products which is fine, until I try to access the index view for either organizations or products, at which point I get the error:

Table 'wyforg_development.products' doesn't exist: SELECT * FROM `products`

which makes sense since the table is called 'admin_products' not 'products'. I assume the way to address this is not to rename the tables 'products' and 'organizations', dropping the 'admin_' prefix, but by some other method of overriding the default configuration of the scaffolding, but I can't figure out where to do this and how. Thanks for any help.

~Ben

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It took me most of the day, but I think I understand a little bit better now. If anyone reading this finds fault with this approach, please comment, I'm still struggling to understand why things work or don't.

I modified the routes.rb file to replace this:

map.resources :organizations

with this:

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

But it would still throw a database error. So I had to add this to the model:

set_table_name "admin_organizations"

I'm not sure whether this is the correct way to do things or not but it seems to work after modifying various views.