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By: Active scaffold | Kaokaokao

Active scaffold | Kaokaokao — Thu, 01 Nov 2012 13:58:50 +0000

[…] getting started with activescaffold | the evolving ultrasaurusJul 1, 2009 … The use case that led me to ActiveScaffold today was the creation of an admin interface. I’m working on a website and the end user stuff is … […]

By: Amal

Amal — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 07:04:58 +0000

Really Nice….I too started with this….

By: bronson

bronson — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 20:21:43 +0000

That seems a little strange to have a tasks.html.erb and an admin.html.erb… Conceptually, I would expect it to be admin/tasks.html.erb.

Does nesting everything behind /admin work well in practice?

By: Rupak Ganguly

Rupak Ganguly — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 08:42:02 +0000

Nice comparative post, Sarah. I noticed that there is a slight typo in the line:

Create app/controllers/task_controller.rb:

which I believe should be:

Create app/controllers/admin/tasks_controller.rb:

Notice the folder “admin” where the controller should be along with the plural naming convention.

Also, for Windows users, if you are having a tough time installing the active_scaffold plugin from Git, checkout the tip in my post at http://rails.webintellix.com/index.php/2009/05/installing-rails-plugins-from-github-on-windows/.

By: rails admin interface roundup | the evolving ultrasaurus

rails admin interface roundup | the evolving ultrasaurus — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 15:23:35 +0000

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By: Daily Links #7 | :neil_middleton

Daily Links #7 | :neil_middleton — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 18:16:10 +0000

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By: Francesc Esplugas

Francesc Esplugas — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 11:52:02 +0000

Nice introduction to ActiveScaffold, but I still think Typus works better out of the box. ;)

By: Double Shot #488 « A Fresh Cup

Double Shot #488 « A Fresh Cup — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 09:50:43 +0000

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By: Sean Dick

Sean Dick — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 17:09:33 +0000

Taking a quick look at streamlined, the same approach of namespacing admin versions of all of your controllers would still give you basically the same effect. If you wanted to be extra fancy, you could actually have your admin versions inherit from an admin controller:

class Admin::AdminController < ApplicationController
before_filter [:login_required, :must_be_admin]

def must_be_admin
# add something to the flash maybe?
redirect_to “/” unless user.admin? and return
end
end

By: Jamie Flournoy

Jamie Flournoy — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 08:30:18 +0000

I tried ActiveScaffold out a couple of weeks ago and didn’t like it. I did like Streamlined, which I ended up using instead.

http://streamlinedframework.org/

The RDoc is not very helpful but the Wiki is: http://trac.streamlinedframework.org/ (at least I think that’s the right wiki since it’s down right this moment.)