Rails - Apr 2006 - problematic admin/views

ok, i have a pretty almost finished (frontend) blog, i have defined an 
admin zone with authentication to add content, now im getting trouble 
with the views for the controllers in the admin zone, here you can see 
my file structure: 
http://img284.imageshack.us/my.php?image=tmpviews6oq.gif

and my admin controllers like this:

controllers/admin/admin_controller.rb
class Admin::AdminController < ApplicationController
...
end

controllers/admin/articles_controller.rb
class Admin::ArticlesController < Admin::AdminController
...
end

both works fine, the problem are the views, for example the 
controllers/articles_controller.rb takes the view from 
views/layouts/articles.rhtml no problem, so the 
controllers/admin/articles_controller.rb should take the view from but 
views/admin/layouts/articles.rhtml but isnt taking any view?? not from 
there not from any place or folder in the admin view zone that i put the 
articles.rhtml file.

but it does take the little files that are usually called from 
@content_for_layout(show.rhtml, edit.rhtml, etc.) so i can add,delete, 
edit items without problems(if i see the source html of the browser i 
only see this part of htmlcode not a complete html page) but what is 
happening, why arent taking a main view?

note: the problem its present on every controller that i create on the 
admin zone, and when i create the admin/articles_controller.rb the 
views/layouts/articles.rhtml(the frontend controller view) its 
overwritten(why??).

well,i have been working on this for a while and now im clueless about 
this, hope someone acn help with this, any help will be very apreciated.

:)

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So the views that work for Admin::ArticlesController are in 
"app/admin/articles/*.rhtml" and the ones that don;t work are in 
"app/admin/*.rhtml"

Views for ArticlesController: app/views/articles
Views for Admin::ArticlesController: app/views/admin/articles

See how that works?

As for the layout, I don''t believe you can put layouts in a subfolder 
like that.  I think the only layouts treated as layouts are in 
"app/views/layouts"

So create a file called "admin_articles.rhtml" in
"app/views/layouts",
and then in your Admin::ArticlesController put this near the top

  layout: admin_articles

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by the naming conventions that are so mentioned, and using simple logic 
i thought that if a controller created in /controllers have its main 
view on /views/layouts, then a controller created on /controllers/admin 
will have its view on /views/admin/layout but well, weird rails thing.

now my layouts worked defining layout: admin/articles(i have 
articles.rhtml inside  /views/admin).

Many thanks for this Alex ;)


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