Rails - Mar 2014 - "class Admin::UsersController < ApplicationController". What does the double colon do here?

I saw this on a Gem implementation and don't understand why it needed 
"::UsersController" at all.

My understanding that it is trying to find the relative path of 
UsersController, but why is it necessary to be there?

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