# Administration of RESTFul-based entities (admin namespace)

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/administration-of-restful-based-entities-admin-namespace/120813>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [November 20, 2007, 8:10pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/administration-of-restful-based-entities-admin-namespace/120813 "2007-11-20T20:10:30Z")\
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**Author:** ![mhfs](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/b2d939/32.png) [@mhfs](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/mhfs)\
**Post date:** [November 20, 2007, 8:10pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/administration-of-restful-based-entities-admin-namespace/120813/1 "2007-11-20T20:10:30Z")

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Hello list,

I’m building a youtube-like application in Rails. I’m basing it on the  
wootube open source project (kudos to wootube developers!).

I’m not into the RESTful model yet but I want to avoid modifying the  
architecture borrowed from wootube. All my controllers are rpc/rest  
mixed and the videos\_controller, based on the one from wootube is  
RESTful. I really like the idea of separating the admin side from the  
front-end of the website (a la Django). This model fits nicely into  
client’s minds and content creators for the website and IMHO is easier  
for code maintenance since I don’t need myriad of ifs inside the view  
as I have a view for admin actions and another view for front-end  
actions. For each of my controllers, I have one that has actions for  
the “front-end” and another one inside an admin subdirectory  
(namespace) for administration actions.

I would like to follow this admin model for the RESTful controller  
too. I’m not sure on how I would do this and if it is viable. Maybe I  
should not use this model on RESTful controllers?

Any help and directions would be greatly appreciated,

Thanks,

Marcelo.

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**Author:** ![mhfs](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/b2d939/32.png) [@mhfs](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/mhfs)\
**Post date:** [November 21, 2007, 1:09pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/administration-of-restful-based-entities-admin-namespace/120813/2 "2007-11-21T13:09:47Z")

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No ideas?