Noob Subdirectory Question

Hi-

I'm new to RoR (as probably evidenced by this post). What I want to do is group some controllers beneath a subdirectory. For instance, I want to have a http://www.mysite.com/admin section of the site that has areas for managing users, products, etc. using URLs like http://www.mysite.com/admin/user/new and so on. My question is twofold. First, what is the best way to do this? Second, is this the RoR way to do things or am I thinking in the paradigm of more traditionla web frameworks.

Regards-      Eric

P.S. - Sorry if this question has been answered. Searhcing for "directory" and "subdirectory" gives noisy results.

You can create routes to make the urls appear however you want, no sub-directories required.

Have a look at Peak Obsession

You can do this nicely & transparently in Rails:

# file: app/controllers/admin/users_controller.rb class Admin::UsersController < ApplicationController end

Then:

url_for( :controller => 'admin/users', :action => 'new' ) => .../admin/users/new

Ie:

1. You put your controller in a subdirectory 'admin' in 'app/ controllers' directory 2. You namespace the controller (Admin::UsersController) 3. You put your views in corresponding directory (app/views/admin/ users) -- but you don't have to 3. Don't forget to use correct syntaxt in url_for, link_to, render (eg. render :template => 'admin/new')

Cheers,

Karel

P.S. You can even subclass your Admin::UsersController from your "default" or "presentation layer" UsersController and use inheritance this way.