The Problem

You want to have a /admin directory with a home page and a series of actions beneath that directory for categories of users (such as administrating users /admin/users or posts /admin/posts)

The Solution

You need to uses routes and change the syntax of your generate commands:

ruby script/generate scaffold User admin/user

ruby script/generate scaffold Post admin/post

Now you need the controller for your admin homepage:

ruby script/generate Controller admin/home

And finally, you’ll need to edit your config/routes.rb file to point /admin/ at /admin/home/

map.connect 'admin', :controller => "admin/home"

Other NotesKeep in mind controller paths are relative, so if you try and call a controller called ‘login’ from /admin/users, rails will go looking in /admin/login, so if its at the root, you’ll need to do syntax like: redirectto :controller => ‘/login’ (and not redirectto :controller => ‘login’) Got a better way? (Is this wrong?!)

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