Question

I want to have a /admin section in my application, and have routes within this /admin section like:

http://www.example.com/admin/ (only certain users have acess to this section)

then have controllers in this section like:

/admin/users/{add, new, etc}

What are my options for something like this? (using rails 3)

Answer 1

Do something like this in your routes.rb:

  namespace :admin do
    resources :users
  end

See http://guides.rubyonrails.org/routing.html for more detail.

Then in each admin controller you’ll need a before_filter:

before_filter :authorized?
def authorized?
    #check if authorized here.
end