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Welcome to the Active Admin wiki.

Guides

Resources

• Your First Admin Resource: AdminUser
• Add custom actions and buttons
• Enable and disable CRUD actions
• Creating dynamic scopes
• Scoped index resource
• How to modify pagination size
• Set page title
• Add a menu entry for a collection action
• How to disable sidebar
• Hide Default Actions or Sidebars
• Extend default controller methods
• Disable export (csv, xml, json) links
• How do I prevent extra full table queries on my index pages?

Dashboard

• How to add instance variable for the Dashboard

• Auditing via paper_trail (change history)

• Specifiying locale

• Define a resource inside an engine

• Use Spork

• Implement a custom decorator

• Heroku Cedar deployment with the Asset Pipeline

Forms

• Form Partial Tricks
• Showing an uploaded image in the form
• Nested model form image upload
• CKEditor integration
• Combine datetime picker with active_admin

Integrating with CanCan

• How to work with cancan
• CanCan and forms
• Cancan and existing resource action items (buttons)
• Cancan and collection resource action items (buttons)
• Conditional Columns in the index page (CanCan)
• Enforce CanCan constraints

Compatibility with will_paginate

• How to work with will_paginate

Third-party

Integrating with other gems

• How to work with AASM
• How to work with sunspot-solr
• How to work with Draper

Dependencies

• InheritedResources
• Formtastic
• Devise
• Kaminari

Plugins

• activeadmin-mongoid
• activeadmin-mongomapper
• activeadmin-cancan
• active_admin_associations