Scaffolding: Create, Edit, Destroy in admin area

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Hi Community, I'm currently trying to create a blog software in rails, but I've got a problem: I generated scaffolding for my articles and only want administrators to write, edit or delete articles. So I wanted to move this parts to another, secured controller. The one controller to display articles is called articles :), the other is also called articles, but is located in a folder called "admin". The code looks like this: Admin::ArticlesController < ApplicationController. This works great. I can view the public area by http://localhost:3000/articles and the admin area by http://localhost:3000/admin/articles. But I've got problems with the routing: The named routes (?) generated by map.resources :articles (e.g. edit_article_path(article), new_article_path, and so on…) still point to the "public area", whereas the actions aren't there. I think it's pretty a newbie question, but how can I generate different routes so that these routes don't point to the "public area".

Thank you very much in advance Christoph

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=== routes.rb

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

then in your admin views you change your links like such:

article => admin_article_url(article) edit_article_path(article) => edit_admin_article_url(article)

the same methodology with paths.

also check that the redirections from the controller are changed as well. Namely in the create, update and destoy.

hope this helps

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Thank you very much for your quick and great help. That was exactly what I was looking for :slight_smile:

Christoph

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And in your forms, instead of marking :

<% form_for(@article) do |f| %> # form... <% end %>

you can use

<% form_for([ :admin, @article ]) do |f| %> # form... <% end %>

to link to the correct action

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I wrote a guide on doing exactly that: frozenplague.net

May also help out.

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Completely forgot about that one! Completely right Gabriel.

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Ryan, You need to check out your site. This is the second time I've clicked on a link you've promoted and there is simply a title with a blank page.

Works fine for me

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You can only write this and still nothing else renaming or writing.

map.namespace :admin do |admin|      map.resources :article, :controller => 'admin/ article', :path_prefix => 'admin' end