Dashboard Manifest generator

[astamm78]

Rather than running rails generate administrate:install and going through the overwrite prompts for each model, would it be possible to have a single-model generator for when new models get added to an application?

[gpinkham]

rails generate administrate:dashboard Foo

[astamm78]

Perfect. Missed that in the docs

[zamith]

What about for projects that start using administrate pretty late in the game, when they already have dozens of models, but only want dashboards for some? Is that a solution as well?

[c-lliope]

@zamith - you could take a couple approaches there.

1. Run rails generate administrate:install, and delete the dashboards you don't want
2. Run rails generate administrate:dashboard ModelName for each dashboard you do want.

If you go with option 2, you'll also need to define a DashboardManifest class that follows this structure.

[zamith]

@Graysonwright Right, I was wondering about the manifest. I think I'll take number 2. Any interest/ideas to improve the flow in this situation, or is this not a regular use case at all?

[c-lliope]

At the moment we don't have a generator for creating only a blank manifest - we could add that in as part of our generator push.

Thanks for the suggestion!

[zamith]

That would be cool. Thanks.

[zamith]

@Graysonwright Btw, is there a way to specify the directory administrate uses? I already have an admin directory for other things, I would like to change it.

[zamith]

It seems you also need an Admin::ApplicationController, or to change the inheritance to something else.

[c-lliope]

@zamith at the moment, admin is hard-coded. We'd like to change that, but haven't gotten to it yet. There's discussion in #281.

[c-lliope]

follow-up to the admin namespace discussion in #339, #332.

[c-lliope]

This should be fixed by #362.