Question

Im migrating from .net to rails and im a beginner. I have played around but cant figure out how can i create a base controller for admin namespace to share some functionality. I mean, where to put the Base class because i get errors for each try.

Thanks

Answer 1

Assume that you are using Rails 3.
You can do like this.

routes.rb

namespace :admin do
  resources :users
end

Here is the structure of controllers folder:

controllers/
  application_controller.rb
  admin/
    base_admin_controller.rb
    users_controller.rb

admin/base_admin_controller.rb:

class Admin::BaseAdminController < ApplicationController
  protected

    def some_shared_method
      # Do something
    end
end

You can add any methods that all admin controllers will share. Then just simply inherit the BaseAdminController class.

admin/users_controller.rb:

class Admin::UsersController < Admin::BaseAdminController
  def index
    some_shared_method
  end
end