pundit cant find policy while using namespace

[Sphaerus]

I'm using standard "admin" namespace, yet if i use 'authorize' method in it, pundit still looks for "standard" class.
eg i have admin::userscontroller, and in my policies, directory 'admin' with admin::userpolicy but all the time i get
'unable to find policy UserPolicy' error.

[jnicklas]

Policies follow the namespacing of models, not of controllers, so if you had an Admin::User model, you could use a Admin::UserPolicy policy.

[delphaber]

And your user_policy.rb file must be saved in app/policies/admin folder

[Sphaerus]

this is exactly the point, when i have it in folder you mentioned, pundit cant find it. when i just throw it into "policies" it works. i tried to solve it with "require_dependencies" in admin::users_controller pointing onto policies/admin, and it kinda works. kinda, because anytime i make a change in the policy, i get "superclass mismatch for class UserPolicy" and have to restart server.

[delphaber]

Actually it worked for me. My previous solution was manually defining policy class in namespaced class

module DepattoModels

  class Activity
    def self.policy_class
      ActivityPolicy
    end
  end
end

Is your policy class definition like this?

class Admin::UserPolicy [....]

[Sphaerus]

Yes

[delphaber]

Then... sorry I do not know why it doesn't work :(
I'm currently using pundit 0.2.1

[jekuno]

I had a similar issue. If you have a Admin::User model you may not use a simple symbol such as authorize :user because pundits policy finder will turn this into User (namespace missing) using object.to_s.camelize.

Check your parameter of the authorize call. You either have to provide your class (or an instance of it) such as authorize Admin::User or you need to provide a prefixed symbol such as authorize :"admin/user".

[rolandoalvarado]

This solves my issue. Thanks @jnicklas