ruby on rails - How to create controllers in different namespace for an existing model?

Question

I have a Product model in my rails app. Now I want to create a controller and views for this product model through scaffolding in a different namespace(api).

Till now I have tried using

rails g scaffold_controller product name:string price:integer 

and after this I added the this to my routes file

namespace :api do
  resources :products
end

Now when I go to the link api/products . I get this error

uninitialized constant Api::Product

on the index action

def index
   @api_products = Api::Product.all
end

After this I removed the Api:: from my controller index, new and create action. After doing this my index url (/api/products) was working fine but now when I try to create a new product(/api/products/new) I get the following error

undefined method `products_path' 

This is the code for my model file (location is models/)

class Product < ActiveRecord::Base
end

Can anyone please help in implementing this correctly?

Answer 1

You should move product.rb to app/models/api and change the class name to Api::Product

#app/models/api/product.rb
class Api::Product < ActiveRecord::Base
  self.table_name = "products"
end