Admin Views

A Rails generator to create admin scaffolding with searching and sorting for a model.

The generator is pretty opinionated, because I wrote this after I became tired of writing the same code over and over. It expects that your admin controllers will reside under app/controllers/admin and use namespaced restful routes. It also expects a base admin controller named Admin::AdminController, but this is a single edit in the generated controller if you do not use that.

gem install admin_views

This library uses the will_paginate and formtastic gems.

Create the model that you need, make sure the db table is generated too. Then:

script/generate admin_views User

This will generate:

app/controllers/admin/users_controller.rb
app/views/admin/users/_form.html.erb
app/views/admin/users/_user.html.erb
app/views/admin/users/edit.html.erb
app/views/admin/users/index.html.erb
app/views/admin/users/new.html.erb
app/views/admin/users/show.html.erb

Add the model resource route to your routes.rb. Example:

map.namespace :admin do |admin|
  admin.resources :users
  admin.root :controller => 'users'
end

Edit the generated index.html.erb and _user.html.erb to only display the fields that you need. By default they show all fields for the model. Same with the _form.html.erb and show.html.erb.

Copyright (c) 2010 Conor Hunt conor.hunt@gmail.com Released under the MIT license