Setting up Admin controller rails 2.02

rubyonrails-talk
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Is there an easier way to set up and admin controller in rails other than

http://www.akitaonrails.com/2007/12/12/rolling-with-rails-2-0-the-first-full-tutorial ?

This seems like way too much work. Please help if you can. Your help is greatly appreciated.

Thank you very much.

Kamau Osaze

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I' am just working on a hotel booking application and I decided to give the administrator own controllers and views. For me it's easier to maintain.

If I use the same template for guests and admins I have a lot of

<% if !admin? %>     guest things to show <% else %>   admin things to show <% end &>

...

so I decided to make it this way:

app   controllers     admin       bookings_controller.rb       guests_controller.rb       ...    bookings_controller.rb    guest_controller.rb

...

views    admin     bookings       index.html.erb     guests       index.html.erb      ...    bookings      index.html.erb    guests      index.html.erb

I have a lot of files but for me it's easier to maintain 2 templates - allowing me to generate 2 completly different outputs without having lots of if - conditions.

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This thread has links to other articles besides Akita's:

http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk/browse_thread/thread/f6c1b3a546e7e240?hl=en

In particular, using a single controller with conditional logic is discussed in one article.

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