Rails - May 2008 - noob question regarding site and table naming structure

I''m a newbie at Rails and Ruby so please bear with me:

I''m trying to build a simple application that has an administration
system that manages organizations and products. I want the model/views/
controllers for ''organizations'' and
''products'' to be within the
''admin'' part of the site, so I created a controller for admin
first:

generate controller admin

then I created scaffolding like thus:

generate scaffold admin/organization
generate scaffold admin/product

everything seems fine so far, the tables created through the migration
were admin_organizations and admin_products which is fine, until I try
to access the index view for either organizations or products, at
which point I get the error:

Table ''wyforg_development.products'' doesn''t exist:
SELECT * FROM
`products`

which makes sense since the table is called ''admin_products''
not
''products''. I assume the way to address this is not to rename
the
tables ''products'' and ''organizations'',
dropping the ''admin_'' prefix,
but by some other method of overriding the default configuration of
the scaffolding, but I can''t figure out where to do this and how.
Thanks for any help.

~Ben

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It took me most of the day, but I think I understand a little bit
better now. If anyone reading this finds fault with this approach,
please comment, I''m still struggling to understand why things work or
don''t.

I modified the routes.rb file to replace this:

map.resources :organizations

with this:

map.namespace :admin do |admin|
		admin.resources :organizations
	end

But it would still throw a database error. So I had to add this to the
model:

set_table_name "admin_organizations"

I''m not sure whether this is the correct way to do things or not but
it seems to work after modifying various views.
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