RESTful admin interface? how?

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Hello,

So I have a web site with companies and products. I use REST and make companies a resource and products a resource (and a 'sub-resource' of company). But only for viewing, no new, no create, no destroy, no update. Now I want to offer an admin interface that would be essentially the same but with an URL prefix of /my/ to the URL, same models, but that are viewed differently. Only the owned companies and products are shown (being logged in is a requirement for everything in /my/), the interface would be different, and it would allow create, destroy, update, etc. What is the RESTful way to do it?

Thank you.

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Would you know any online resources or online tutorails that teach how to do this?

Elle

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Yes, I've used to use that method in Rails 1.2, but I'm not sure it'll lead to proper RESTful resources now.

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What do you exactly mean by "this"? If you mean learn RESTful Rails, I've learnt with Panel - Tizi-Server.de

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DHH talked about this in the RailsConf keynote, which you can read about here:

http://casperfabricius.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/09/keynote-dhh.txt

basically you add the following to your routes file:

  map.namespace :admin do |admin|     admin.resources :orders, :member => { :resend => :post }     admin.resources :users, :collection => { :filter => :any } end

#want to allow public access to certain methods for orders and users map.resources :orders, :users

then you'll have a admin/users_controller.rb and admin/orders_controller.rb files, as well as the public users_controller and orders_controller. Your restful paths will look like the following:

admin/users admin/users/new admin/users/edit

admin/orders/ admin/orders/edit etc

so you stick your index and show methods in your public users_controller, and put the admin index, create, update, etc, new, etc into the admin/users_controller.

Adam