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

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+7 A:

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.

tomafro 2009-05-24 07:55:55

Ah, thanks, that did work. However, it turns out that I have to set a custom table name for my model as well. Also, the form_for helper dosn't work as it uses "<model path>_path" thing for the action attribute I think, so it throws an error that it can't find the method "blog_entries_path"... Any ideas?

nlaq 2009-05-24 08:28:57

I'm starting to think that rails frowns upon multiple namespaces for models and controllers... Which is a shame because I really like the <section>/<module>/<model> path structure.

nlaq 2009-05-24 08:30:11

the rails convention is that model names are singular while controllers are plural. Maybe rename the controller Admins::Blogs::EntriesController (yes, that looks strange)Maybe you should also rethink using namespaced models, they are probably more trouble than they're worth, see http://stackoverflow.com/questions/601768/namespaced-models-in-rails-whats-the-state-of-the-union

levinalex 2009-06-01 16:46:29

Answer 2

+1 A:

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).

Cody Caughlan 2009-05-24 08:56:25

Answer 3

A:

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

Keith Pitt 2010-01-19 01:33:47

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