Active Admin

It abstracts common business application patterns to make it simple for developers to implement beautiful and elegant interfaces with very little effort.

Instructions are provided with the package's README file.

Features:

• Authentication
• Resource customization
• Customize the navigation
• Customize the index page
• User-friendly GUI
• Filters
• Sidebar

What is new in this release:

• Migration from Metasearch to Ransack.

What is new in version 0.6.1:

• OmniAuth provider links now automatically appear on the login page.
• Menu items can now properly overflow.
• Favicon support.

What is new in version v0.5.0:

• Root route can be set to any controller#action using #root_to.
• Batch Actions allows you to select entries on index page and perform an action against them.
• CSV separators are configurable.
• Lot of bug fixes.

What is new in version v0.4.4:

• Uses formtastic ~> 2.1.1 until AA 0.5.0 is released.
• Uses inherited_resources >= 1.3.1 (ensure Flash messages work).

What is new in version v0.4.3:

• Fixed comment issues when using postgres.

What is new in version v0.4.2:

• Enhancements:
• Automatically include js and css to precompile list.
• Site title accepts a proc that is rendered in the context of the view.
• Form blocks are now rendered within the context of the view.
• Filter's collections are now eval'd in the context of the view.
• The html body now includes a class for the namespace name.
• Hide the count from one specific scope using :show_count => false.
• Bug Fixes:
• Comments now work with models using string IDs.
• When table_for collection is empty it no longer outputs a blank array in Ruby 1.9.
• Fixed compatibility with pry-rails.
• Install generator handles custom class names for user.

What is new in version v0.4.1:

• Enhancements:
• Pages support the #page_action to add custom controller actions to a page
• Columns component now supports column spans, max and min widths
• Custom pagination settings per resource
• Login form now focuses on email
• Add :if support to sidebar sections
• Added :scope_count => false to the index to hide scope counts in generated scopes
• Bug Fixes:
• Global nav now works with RackBaseURI
• Global nav works when scoped in rails routes
• Fix index page check collection.limit(1).exists? causes exception when ordering by virtual column
• Fix SQL when sorting tables with a column named "group"

What is new in version v0.4.0:

• Namespace specific configurations in the initializer.
• Set an image as the site title using config.site_title_image in the Active Admin initializer.
• Create a standalone page in Active Admin using ActiveAdmin.register_page.
• Register stylesheets with a media type.

What is new in version v0.3.4:

• Fixed reloading issues across operating systems.
• Fixed issue where SASS was recompiling on every request. This can seriously decrease the load time of applications when running in development mode.

What is new in version v0.3.3:

• Enhancements:
• Only reload Active Admin when files in the load paths have changed. This is a major speed increase in development mode. Also helps with memory consumption because we aren't reloading Active admin all the time.

What is new in version v0.3.2:

• Enhancements:
• Site title can now be a link. Use config.site_title_link in config/initializers/active_admin.rb
• i18n support for Japanese
• i18n support for Bulgarian
• i18n support for Swedish
• Bug Fixes:
• DeviseGenerator respects singular table names
• Active Admin no longer assumes sass-rails is installed
• Arbre::Context passes methods to the underlying HTML which fixes issues on different types of servers (and on Heroku)
• #45: Fix for multibyte characters
• #505: Fix titlebar height when no breadcrumb
• Fixed vertical align in dashboard
• Fixed i18n path's for multi-word model names

What is new in version v0.3.0:

• New Features:
• I18n! Now supported in 10 languages!
• Customizeable CSV
• Menus now support if and priority
• Rails 3.1 support
• Asset pipeline support
• skip_before_filter now supported in DSL
• Added a blank slate design
• Collection and Member actions use the Active Admin layout
• Enhancements:
• Better I18n config file loading
• TableFor now supports I18n headers
• AttributesTable now supports I18n attributes
• Member actions all use CSS class member_link
• Made status_tag an Arbre component
• CSV downloads have sexy names such as "articles-2011-06-21.csv"
• Created ActiveAdmin::Setting to easily create settings
• New datepicker styles
• Set @page_title in member action to render a custom title
• Settable logout link options in initializer
• Added a DependencyChecker that warns if dependencies aren't met
• Bug Fixes:
• Fix update action with STI models
• Fix sortable columns on nested resources
• Fix so that Dashboard Sections can appear in root namespace
• Fixed status_tag with nil content
• Fixed dropdown menu floats in Firefox
• Use quoted table names
• Fixed CSS float of .paginated_collection_contents bug in Firefox
• Removed unwanted gradient in IE in attribute table headers
• Added Arbre::Context#length for Rack servers
• Fixed problem with dropdown menus in IE8 and IE9
• Default sort order should use primary_key
• Fixed issues with #form params disappearing
• Fixes for when default_namespace = false
• Comments on STI classes redirect correctly
• Fixed performance issue where ActiveRecord::Base.all was being called
• Fixed Devise redirection when in false namespace
• Fixed issue where class names would clash with HTML object names
• Fixed issues with Devise < 1.2
• Added support for pluralized model names such as News
• Default forms work with polymorphic associations
• Dependencies:
• Switched from will_paginate to Kaminari for pagination
• Removed dependency on InheritedViews
• Removed Jeweler. Using Bundler and a gemspec

What is new in version v0.2.2:

• Features & Enhancements:
• Arbre includes self closing tags.
• Controller class & action added to body as CSS classes.
• HAML is not required by default.
• Devise login now respects Devise.authentication_keys.
• Active Admin no longer uses ActiveRecord::Base#search.
• Resource's can now override the label in the menu.
• Subdirectories are now loaded in the Active Admin load path.

What is new in version v0.2.1:

• Bug Fixes:
• Fixed issue with dashboard rendering a sidebar.

Requirements:

• Ruby on Rails