Deprecated. Please use github.com/activeadmin/activeadmin or github.com/sferik/rails_admin.
A Rails admin interface generator for Rails 3.1+. Theme stolen from Redmine. Similar to web-app-theme.
Generator to create some nifty admin scaffolds. It can work with MetaSearch and Kaminari. It also has admin authentication really well implemented.
You should be using v1.2.0+ of the Gem. Add the following to your Gemfile.
gem 'admin_interface'
rails generate admin_interface:setup
This will:
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Create an Admin::BaseController in app/controllers/admin/base_controller.rb
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Create a layout in app/views/layouts/admin.html.erb
Change the app/controllers/admin/base_controller.rb to have a before filter only allowing admins to access it.
To view the admin page go to /admin (username: admin, password: admin).
Create a scaffold for a model, for example:
rails generate admin_interface:scaffold post rails generate admin_interface:scaffold post title:string body:text published:boolean rails generate admin_interface:scaffold purchase order_id:integer amount:decimal
This will:
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Create stuff similar to original Rails scaffold generator but for admin interface.
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NOT create model since you probably have it already.
Pass the name of the model (in singular form), either CamelCased or under_scored, as the first argument, and an optional list of attribute pairs.
Attribute pairs are column_name:sql_type arguments specifying the model’s attributes. Timestamps are added by default, so you don’t have to specify them by hand as ‘created_at:datetime updated_at:datetime’.
You should customize your admin area so it can be more functional and nicely looking.
Go to /admin and you can see everything in action.
Add this to a initializer or in your environment.rb (see: railscasts.com/episodes/39-customize-field-error) This will make sure the admin errors will show in correct styling.
# Change the error from div to span ActionView::Base.field_error_proc = Proc.new do |html_tag, instance_tag| "<span class='field_with_errors'>#{html_tag}</span>".html_safe end
Note that this might affect the rest of your application. A different solution is welcome!
Kudos, credits or whatever you like more go to:
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Jean-Philippe Lang (creator of Redmine).
Copyright © 2012 Joost Hietbrink, released under the MIT license