# Rail's App structure in Gem?

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-app-structure-in-gem/187943>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [May 2, 2010, 11:47pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-app-structure-in-gem/187943 "2010-05-02T23:47:12Z")\
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**Post date:** [May 2, 2010, 11:47pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-app-structure-in-gem/187943/1 "2010-05-02T23:47:12Z")

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I have been looking at the source of some Gems… Within some, I see  
an App structure that emulates part of Rail’s App structure, i.e,  
Controller, Helpers, Models, Views etc…

How do Gem centric paths work when a Rails style App dir is part of a  
Gem’s design? Do paths to contollers and views created in the Gem  
defer to it’s App dir instead of the rails\_root/app?

Any thoughts or links to useful resources are appreciated.

Thanks, Elliott