Ruby on Rails model inside namespace can't be found in controller

Question

I\'m new to rails and can\'t figure out this issue...

I have a controller

Admin::Blog::EntriesController

defined in app/controllers/adm

Answer 1

You can achieve a custom table name by using

set_table_name('foo')

at the top of your model.

As for multiple namespaces, you might be able to get away with using

polymorphic_path(@the_object)

to generate your urls as it does more basic inference (in my experience at least, maybe form_for uses it under the hood).

Answer 2

It is now 2011 and we are in Rails 3.1 territory, but this issue still arises. I just ran into it with a namespaced controller referencing a non-namespaced model, but only when there were no rows for that model in the database!

Prefixing the model name with :: fixes the problem.

Answer 3

Try:

@blog_entries = ::Blog::Entry.find(:all)

It's currently looking for the wrong class. Using :: before Blog will force it to look from the top level.

Answer 4

Yeah, from looking at the code form_for uses polymorphic_path under the hood.