Rails application + sub applications + scaffold

[mwmitchell]

Hi,

I'd like to create an admin suite, that contains sub applications. I want to be able to access my admin panel by going to '/admin' and be able to share the resources (models etc) within the related applications. Here is an example:

Display main page:
/admin/
Would display total products, last five orders

Products:
/admin/products
Display paging list etc.

Product Edit:
/admin/products/edit/1
Form for editing products

Orders:
/admin/orders
Display paging list etc.

Edit Order:
/admin/orders/edit/1

Store:
/store
Listing of products

Store Product:
/store/product/3
product details

Home Page:
/

How do I go about doing that while still using the scaffold generator? Can I specifiy a directory for the controllers to go into? like:
./script/generator scaffold products admin/products

- matt

[mwmitchell]

Another issue:

In my views folder I have generically named files like edit, new etc., but they'll be different for each action, obviously. How is this dealt with? Do I create actions like delete_product, new_product etc? instead of new, delete, edit etc.?

-matt

[vgarcia]

ruby script/generate scaffold Admin::Product
ruby script/generate scaffold Admin::Category

This will create the namespace/directory structure you want. If you want to have the 5-product listing in /admin/, then I suggest editing routes.rb to point to a view/controller method from the Admin::Product controller (since it's really a product page).

As for your second question, you can either accept the defaults and change the file names/controller methods afterwards, or you can run a command like so:

ruby script/generate controller Product delete_product new_product

Which will make your Product controller with 2 methods, delete_product and new_product. Then you create the views to go with these methods yourself.

[mwmitchell]

OK cool. I did:
./script/generator scaffold --help
and found out more about the script. I didn't use the :: but a / instead and it seemed to resolve.

After I did the scaffold for admin/products, the browser/server wasn't finding it. I then created a new controller called admin with the index action. Still didn't work. So I restarted my computer. Then loaded the page. Then it found my admin index action. But still no admin/products. After I deleted the admin_controller I created, the admin/products page was finally working and now, everything is working great.

Thanks for your help,

matt