Rails Admin Clone

Rails Admin plugin to clone existing records

To enable rails_admin_clone, add the following to your Gemfile:

gem 'rails_admin_clone'
gem 'rails_admin'

Important: rails_admin_clone must be defined before rails_admin to work correctly.

Add in your config/initializers/rails_admin.rb initializer the configuration:

RailsAdmin.config do |config|
  config.actions do
    dashboard
    index
    new
    export
    history_index
    bulk_delete
    show
    clone   # Add the clone action
    edit
    delete
    history_show
    show_in_app
  end
end

You can specify a custom model method to clone objects with the following configuration:

RailsAdmin.config do |config|
  config.model 'Post' do
    clone_config do
      custom_method :my_custom_clone_method
    end
  end
end

Here an implementation example for a clone custom_method:

class Post < ActiveRecord::Base

  ...

  def my_custom_clone_method
    self.dup.tap do |post|
      post.status = :draft
      post.slug   = nil
      post.title  = "Copy of #{self.title}"
    end
  end

end

Note: for an easy way to clone ActiveRecord objects including their associations, take a look at Amoeba Gem

Submitting a Pull Request:

1. Fork the repository.
2. Create a topic branch.
3. Implement your feature or bug fix.
4. Add, commit, and push your changes.
5. Submit a pull request.

This project rocks and uses MIT-LICENSE.

Copyright 2014 Andrea Dal Ponte

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