Question

I’m new to rails, and trying to develop a system that will have several different types of user. I’m trying to use namespaces to separate these areas, but I want the models to be shared. I’ve created a user object, and I want to be able to edit it from the admin namespace. I’ve scaffolded an Admin::UserController, and defined the routes as:

namespace :admin do
    resources :users
end

root :to => "home#index"

When I go to admin/users it shows fine, but clicking ‘Create User’ gave me an NoMethodError, saying it couldn’t find the path users_path. After searching I realised I needed to update my routes.rb to:

resources :users

namespace :admin do
    resources :users
end

root :to => "home#index"

Now I can get to the admin/users/new form, but when I post it tries to return to /users. My two questions are: 1. how can I make this work? and 2. am I even approaching this correctly trying to use namespaces in this manner?

Answer 1

You have routes generated for both /admin/users and /users. If you want to use Admin::UsersController use admin_users_path and if you wish to use UsersController use users_path in your form.

I would also like to suggest you to use rake routes command if you ever wonder what are the names of the generated routes.