Rails Admin is a simple CRUD engine for managing data. It was originally ported from MerbAdmin to Rails 3 and has been expanded since.
Rails Admin is available on GitHub, along with documentation and a live demo, and dummy application source.
Questions tagged [rails-admin]
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rails_admin display name instead of id
I've installed rails_admin into my app and I want to do something pretty basic...I have two models and their association comes up as expected...I have a seminar registration model that belongs_to :user.
In the rails_admin it lists my seminar…
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How can I customize only a field in rails_admin?
I have a field for which rails_admin generates a textfield, but I'd like it to use a
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Use rails_admin forms in custom views?
I am making my own custom view that I need to make the process of creating associated models less painful for my users. I want to display all of the models associated pieces in-line, with controls to edit them. This is quite easy to roll my own…
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In rails_admin, how do I turn off the "add new" and "edit" button in relation sub-foms?
I want to stop people adding or editing Page Layout from inside a sub form. Basically I want to turn off the buttons in the below screenshot:
Am I able to do this, or do I have to turn off adding and editing on the entire Page Layout model…
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Rails Admin modify list/show view to add new/customized column
I have setup the rails_admin for the admin interface of my site.
For one of the Model, I want to display an additional column.
say i have name , phone , email, image url, rank etc attributes in my Model(say Student).
Then I have to display columns :…
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How to hide Add new option in Rails Admin
I am customizing Rails Admin : https://github.com/sferik/rails_admin , i need to disable/hide "Add new" option for some model.
Any help will save lot time for me. Thanks in advance
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How to keep DRY with a ActiveAdmin or RailsAdmin, separate from the main application
I am building a JSON-only application, it is basically a leaner Rails, with fewer middleware and fewer modules. This is an application being built in Rails 4.
I want to to develop a simple app that can administrate the data in the database for the…
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How to customize edit and update action in rails_admin
I'm using rails_admin and I think it's great. Unfortunately I can't get to override a specific action on a specific model.
I just need to override edit and update behavior on one model. Any idea?
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rails_admin with cancan not catching access denied exception for redirect
I am using rails 5, rails_admin, devise and cancancan.
Everything works correctly, but when there is access denied, it shows a 'You are not authorized to access this page' error screen.
I want to redirect to root_path, I've been searching and I only…
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Using rails_admin with rails_api
I originally posted this as an issue on rails_api GitHub, but am now posting it here due to inactivity.
I'm trying to use rails_admin with a Rails 5 API application. I included extra ActionController modules up to the point that I can either have a…
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Is there a way to add an "Edit HTML" button to bootstrap-wysihtml5 when integrating with Rails_Admin?
The Rails_Admin wiki explains how to integrate with bootstrap-wysihtml5 which is incredibly easy.
However, I'd like the wysihtml5 widget to have the "edit as html" button.
Is this possible?
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Devise separate sign out for two different models
I have two models User and Admin(with RailsAdmin) that use Devise. I sign in as user and then sign in as admin. But the result of signing out from one of that models is signing out of two models at the same time. How can I fix it?
Please, help :)
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RailsAdmin - Customizing your own filters
I'm using https://github.com/sferik/rails_admin to handle my admin interface.
It's possible to filter your model based on the current columns that exists in this model (id, created_at etc.)
I want to be able to add custom filters for…
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Custom Javascript Rails Admin
I want to add the JS from Google Analytics embed API into my rails application and only for Rails Admin (not needed anywhere else).
We have overwritten the Rails Admin Dashboard and now we are struggling with the custom JS.
I found here:…
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Validates presense vs null false in Rails models/tables
I was playing around with Rails admin and I noticed something.
Attributes which are defined as below in model, counted as "Required" in Rails admin
validates :user, presence: true
However, attributes which are defined as below in table…
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