# Naming controllers in modules?

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/naming-controllers-in-modules/105482>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [May 30, 2007, 11:21am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/naming-controllers-in-modules/105482 "2007-05-30T11:21:55Z")\
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**Author:** ![kristersaurus](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@kristersaurus](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/kristersaurus)\
**Post date:** [May 30, 2007, 11:21am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/naming-controllers-in-modules/105482/1 "2007-05-30T11:21:55Z")

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Hey guys.

I noticed in an example from the active scaffold documentation that it  
seems to be possible to put rails controllers in modules, a la “class  
Admin::CompaniesController \< ApplicationController”. Does anyone know  
anything about this? What do you name the file? Do you put it in a  
subdirectory?

Thanks.

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**Author:** ![kristersaurus](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@kristersaurus](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/kristersaurus)\
**Post date:** [May 30, 2007, 1:54pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/naming-controllers-in-modules/105482/2 "2007-05-30T13:54:30Z")

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Hi,

Just: script/generate model controlelr admin::companies  
And that is was!

It will create a controller named CompanyController in a subdir named  
admin. From the ruby point of view, CompanyController belongs to admin  
namespace (class Admin::CompanyController)

Regards,  
Jean-Etienne

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**Author:** ![kristersaurus](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@kristersaurus](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/kristersaurus)\
**Post date:** [June 2, 2007, 7:39am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/naming-controllers-in-modules/105482/3 "2007-06-02T07:39:56Z")

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Funny, I just started using this and wanted to understand exactly that.

I can’t test it in my app right now, but I’d venture a guess that it  
would map to: admin/company/

Here’s a question… I notice you’re running the model generator as  
well. Does that mean I would not be able to “share” a Company model  
between two different controller namespaces, say  
Admin::CompanyController and Guest::CompanyController?

Best regards,  
Mauricio

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**Author:** ![kristersaurus](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@kristersaurus](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/kristersaurus)\
**Post date:** [May 31, 2007, 3:14am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/naming-controllers-in-modules/105482/4 "2007-05-31T03:14:56Z")

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thanks, thats very helpful. one more question: what address does this  
get mapped to? …/admin/companies doesn’t seem to work…?

On May 30, 6:54 am, Jean-Etienne D. \<rails-mailing-l…@andreas-