Rails 5 - How to Have Controllers inside Subfolder?-CodePudding

I have a subfolder api in my controllers folder. So when I call POST "/api/auth" I would like the program to get there using rails conventions. I.E. I don't want to write the route for each call, but to use rails "patent" that makes rails go to CRUD actions understanding the PUT, POST, GET by itself.

So in my routes.rb I have:

  namespace :api do
    resources :debts, :auth
  end

But when I POST (or GET) with localhost:3000/api/auth I get:

ActionController::RoutingError (uninitialized constant Api::AuthController)

What am I missing?

Please note that I also need to have many controllers inside the subfolder. Is there a short match for all?

CodePudding user response：

You have to put your controller in a sub folder too en then do e.g.

# /app/controllers/api/debts_controller.rb
module Api
  class DebtsController < ApiController
  end
end

# /app/controllers/api/auth_controller.rb
module Api
  class AuthController < ApiController
  end
end

Then in base controller folder:

# /app/controllers/api_controller.rb
class ApiController < ApplicationController
end

CodePudding user response：

You need to namespace the class also in order to get this working.

The following 2 ways can be used:

module Api
  class AuthController < ApplicationController
    # Your controller code here
  end
end

class Api::AuthController < ApplicationController
  # Your controller code here
end

If you have some code that needs to be run for every controller inside the Api namespace, you can make an Api base controller, but it's not necessary.