For Rails project, should we separate models into sub directories

Question

How should we separate models into sub directories? 100+ tables.

For example, for contract, there are

app/models/contract/contract.rb 
app/models/contract/contract_signer.rb

class Contract::Contract < ActiveRecord::Base
end
class Contract::ContractSigner < ActiveRecord::Base
end

I dislike it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Answer 1

If you want to organize your models using directories, this is perfectly normal. You will need to add this directory to your load path in environment.rb.

The only thing that looks a little odd are your class names. Why don't you just use:

class Contract < ActiveRecord::Base
end

class ContractSigner < ActiveRecord::Base
end

Answer 2

We've got around 130 models here and are organizing them just as you said - except we're using Contract::Base from time to time. I recommend Contract::Contract and Contract::Signer here.